Excessive fatal injury among migrant children in China: Inequities in safety

Injury Prevention

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 68-71

  Lin, Guozhen ^a   Zhang, Xiao ^a,b   Dong, Hong ^a   Shen, Jichuan ^a   Li, Ke ^a   Zhou, Qin ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHINA; DROWNING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INJURY; MALE; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SAFETY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; URBAN POPULATION;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; DROWNING; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; SAFETY; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; URBAN POPULATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84955403221     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: 14755785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/injuryprev-2014-041270     Document Type: Article

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