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Unintentional injuries in the home in the United States: Part II: Morbidity
Carol S. Wolf Runyan,David Perkis,Stephen W. Marshall,Renee M. Johnson,Tamera Coyne-Beasley,Anna E. Waller,Carla L. Black,Lorena Baccaglini +7 more
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Specific home injury issues include falls among older adults, poisonings among middle-aged adults, fire/burn injuries among older adult and children, and inhalation/suffocation and drowning among young children.About:
This article is published in American Journal of Preventive Medicine.The article was published on 2005-01-01. It has received 170 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Injury prevention & Mortality rate.read more
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Unintentional falls mortality among elderly in the United States: time for action
TL;DR: The burden of fall related mortality is very high and the rate is on the rise; however, the burden and trend varied by gender, age, race and ethnicity and also by state of residence.
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Housing as a determinant of health equity: A conceptual model.
Carolyn B. Swope,Diana Hernández +1 more
TL;DR: This work synthesized literature from a diverse array of disciplines to explore the varied aspects of the relationship between housing and health and developed an original conceptual model highlighting these complexities, offering a comprehensive vision for healthy housing that situates housing's impact on health through a historical and social justice lens.
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Circumstances and outcomes of falls among high risk community-dwelling older adults.
TL;DR: The likelihood of injury in the bathroom supports the need for safety modifications such as grab bars, and may indicate a need for assistance with bathing, and have practical implications for retirement and assisted living communities and community-based fall prevention programs.
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Games that "work": using computer games to teach alcohol-affected children about fire and street safety.
TL;DR: Children diagnosed with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and partial FAS, learned fire and street safety through computer games that employed "virtual worlds" to teach recommended safety skills to high-risk children who have learning difficulties.
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Unintentional injuries in the home in the United States
Carol S. Wolf Runyan,Carri H. Casteel,David Perkis,Carla L. Black,Stephen W. Marshall,Renee M. Johnson,Tamera Coyne-Beasley,Anna E. Waller,Shankar Viswanathan +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantify and describe nonfatal, unintentional injuries in the United States, in which the injury took place at home, and find that falls were the most common injury among all age groups, followed by cutting/piercing injuries, and injuries associated with being struck by or against an object or person.
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