"Childhood injury rates haven't reduced over the past 10 years, while deaths have increased from 108 to 149 deaths per year," "An injury can happen in the blink of an eye and can be life-changing. Even when their wounds have healed, injured kids often face ongoing issues such as chroni...
Pneumococcal disease is a leading cause of childhood morbidity and mortality globally, causing an estimated 0.7--1.0 million deaths annually among children... C Home - 《Mmwr Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report》 被引量: 275发表: 2008年 T cell memory response to pneumococcal protein antigens in...
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1). Thus, at the country scale, there is a strong suggestion that general interventions that would reduce LRI, diarrhoea, and malaria burden simultaneously would have a massive impact in the countries that have the highest total all-cause childhood disease burden. The distribution of combined ...
Suicide is a leading cause of death among adolescents, and recent suicide theories have sought to clarify the factors that facilitate the transition from suicide ideation to action. Specifically, the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide (IPTS), Integrated Motivational-Volitional Model (IMV), and Three Step...
Predisposing factors leading to child trauma. An analysis of specific versus non-specific causes in motor vehicle and drowning fatalities.In many Western countries, trauma is the chief cause of death in children aged one to 14 years. A large number of these deaths are the result of motor ...
Diarrhea caused by enteric diseases is the second leading cause of childhood death in the world, killing more than 2,000 children a day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The overwhelming majority of the deaths are in low-income nations where clean water and proper ...
Statistics have shown that chronic diseases have been the leading cause of deaths in the British Virgin Islands over the last decade. This is according
The accuracy of official cause-of-death data was assessed against verbal autopsy (VA) diagnoses, using kappa statistics, sensitivity, positive predictive value, and misclas- sification analyses. Results: Of 913 eligible deaths, VAs were completed for 878 deaths. Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) were...
Only 12% of countries worldwide have high-quality mortality data from vital events registration, while 75 countries do not have any information on cause-specific mortality [4]. Less than a third of all deaths worldwide have causes that are medically certified [5]. Because of this, verbal ...