Risk factors for childhood poisoning: A case-control study in Greece

Injury Prevention

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 208-211

  Petridou, Eleni ^a,c   Kouri, Nicoletta ^a   Polychronopoulou, Argy ^a   Siafas, Konstantine ^b   Stoikidou, Melpomeni ^a   Trichopoulos, Dimitrios ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b A Kyriacou Children's Hospital   (Greece)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cigarette swallowing; Parental vigilance; Product accessibility; Unintentional childhood poisoning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INFANT; INTOXICATION; MALE; PARENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PARENTS; POISONING; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0030224754     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: 14755785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.2.3.208     Document Type: Article

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