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Injury-Related Deaths Among Finnish Children, 1971-2001
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To the Editor: Injuries are a major public health problem worldwide, and are by far the leading cause of death and disability for children from early childhood through adolescence.1-4 We sought to explore temporal trends in the incidence of traumatic death among children in Finland.
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We obtained from the Finnish Official Cause-of-Death Statistics the data for children aged 0 to 14 years who died from an injury between 1971 and 2001. This statutory register has been computer-based since 1971, and it has been updated and quality-controlled by the Cause-of-Death Bureau at Statistics Finland since its inception.5 The main categories of death from unintentional injury are road traffic injuries, water traffic injuries, falls, drownings, and poisonings.5-6 For deaths from intentional injury, the main categories are suicides and homicides. The Finnish Official Cause-of-Death Statistics are 100% complete, since each death, its certificate, and the corresponding personal information in our computerized population register . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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