Arch Dis Child 1998;78:403-406 ( May )

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Epidemiology of head injury

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	Introduction

Head injury is recognised as a major public health problem that is a frequent cause of death and disability in young people and makes considerable demands on health services. Epidemiological data are required to initiate appropriate preventive measures and to plan necessary services. However, reliable statistics are difficult to extract from routinely collected data.

International statistics for accidental deaths and road accident deaths do not identify head injuries, but they do indicate differences in accident rates between countries and over time. For example, road traffic accident (RTA) deaths are more than twice as frequent in France, Australia, and the USA as in the UK or the Netherlands, but in developed countries they are steadily decreasing each year.¹ In developing countries accident rates are increasing as traffic increases, and they greatly exceed those of developed countries. Asked about the main health hazard of the next decade a Chinese professor of public . . . [Full text of this article]

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