Incidence, characteristics and risk factors for household and neighbourhood injury among young children in semiurban Ghana: A population-based household survey

Injury Prevention

Volumn 21, Issue E1, 2015, Pages e71-e79

  Gyedu, Adam ^a   Nakua, E K ^a   Otupiri, E ^a   Mock, C ^b   Donkor, P ^a   Ebel, B ^b,c  

^a KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c SEATTLE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; BURNS; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FALLING; FEMALE; GHANA; HOME ACCIDENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LACERATIONS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, HOME; ADOLESCENT; BURNS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LACERATIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; RISK FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84940594747     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: 14755785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/injuryprev-2013-040950     Document Type: Article

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