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Adolescent injury risk behavior
- Source :
- International journal of adolescent medicine and health. 16(3)
- Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- Health-risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among adolescents and young adults are often established during adolescence and extended into adulthood. Unintentional motor vehicle injury is the leading cause of mortality in childhood and adolescence in developed countries. This review presents some of the risk factors found in research on unintentional injury and death in adolescence, including risk factors for siblings and adolescents with intellectual disability. These findings should be connected with the findings of a recent study that showed that about one third of all unintentional childhood injury deaths in the United States were preventable. For injury prevention to take place and being effective a multidisciplinary approach is needed to identify host, agent and environmental factors using epidemiology research and biomechanics. In the population of adolescents with intellectual disability there has been little research on injury epidemiology or injury prevention and the service provider will need to focus and educate staff on this issue in order to prevent injury that can result in further disability.
- Subjects :
- Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Population
Poison control
Suicide prevention
Occupational safety and health
Accident Prevention
Risk-Taking
Risk Factors
Epidemiology
Injury prevention
Intellectual disability
medicine
Humans
Israel
Psychiatry
education
Child
education.field_of_study
business.industry
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Human factors and ergonomics
medicine.disease
United States
Adolescent Behavior
Accidents
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Wounds and Injuries
Medical emergency
business
New Zealand
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 03340139
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International journal of adolescent medicine and health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....647609b64ad4e138e31ee25b8b7474d5