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Home Not the Safest Place for Kids, Studies Say
Mon May 5, 2:54 PM ET Add Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo!
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Home is not the safest place for a child to be, according to two U.S. studies published on Monday.
The studies by researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center found that home injuries, though continuing to fall, remain a leading cause of death in children and teens, especially blacks.
And it was not always simply because children spend most of their time at home; the deaths came from fires and other preventable causes, the researchers told a meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies in Seattle.
The good news was that the annual rate of accidental deaths in the home fell by 25 percent between 1985 and 1997. But the researchers who used government statistics found that dangers still abounded.
"A national strategy to make housing safer for children is needed to reduce deaths from household injuries and the associated racial health disparities," Dr. Kieran Phelan, who led one of the studies, said in a statement.
"Children's health is inextricably linked with housing," added Dr. Bruce Lanphear, who headed the other study.
"Unfortunately, despite evidence that residential exposures have a dramatic impact on children's health, housing is largely ignored as a public health problem. Our research is aimed at making housing and the environment safe for children."
The two teams found that 2,800 children die each year from unintentional injuries in the home. Between 1985 and 1997, 69 percent of deaths in children and adolescents under the age of 20 were the result of such injuries.
Twice as many black children as white children died accidentally in the home -- 7 per 100,000 for blacks as compared to 3.3 per 100,000 for whites.
Children younger than 5 and boys were the most likely to be injured, the studies found. The most common causes of injuries and deaths were fires or burns, drowning or suffocation, poisoning and falls.
Falls were the leading cause of injury, accounting for 1.5 million visits to emergency rooms.
Home Not the Safest Place for Kids, Studies Say
Mon May 5, 2:54 PM ET Add Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo!
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...8&e=9&u=/nm/20030505/ts_nm/health_injuries_dc
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Home is not the safest place for a child to be, according to two U.S. studies published on Monday.
The studies by researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center found that home injuries, though continuing to fall, remain a leading cause of death in children and teens, especially blacks.
And it was not always simply because children spend most of their time at home; the deaths came from fires and other preventable causes, the researchers told a meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies in Seattle.
The good news was that the annual rate of accidental deaths in the home fell by 25 percent between 1985 and 1997. But the researchers who used government statistics found that dangers still abounded.
"A national strategy to make housing safer for children is needed to reduce deaths from household injuries and the associated racial health disparities," Dr. Kieran Phelan, who led one of the studies, said in a statement.
"Children's health is inextricably linked with housing," added Dr. Bruce Lanphear, who headed the other study.
"Unfortunately, despite evidence that residential exposures have a dramatic impact on children's health, housing is largely ignored as a public health problem. Our research is aimed at making housing and the environment safe for children."
The two teams found that 2,800 children die each year from unintentional injuries in the home. Between 1985 and 1997, 69 percent of deaths in children and adolescents under the age of 20 were the result of such injuries.
Twice as many black children as white children died accidentally in the home -- 7 per 100,000 for blacks as compared to 3.3 per 100,000 for whites.
Children younger than 5 and boys were the most likely to be injured, the studies found. The most common causes of injuries and deaths were fires or burns, drowning or suffocation, poisoning and falls.
Falls were the leading cause of injury, accounting for 1.5 million visits to emergency rooms.