The Epidemiology and Prevention of Childhood Injuries
An Overview
- 1st Edition - May 20, 2025
- Latest edition
- Authors: Hamid Soori, Martha Orendu Oche Attah
- Language: English
The Epidemiology and Prevention of Childhood Injuries: An Overview takes a comprehensive approach to understanding and addressing childhood injuries. Integrating global resear… Read more
Description
Description
Key features
Key features
- Offers a reliable, up-to-date resource for understanding and addressing epidemiology, risk factors, prevention strategies, and interventions of childhood injuries
- Discusses how different social identities can intersect and contribute to disparities in injury rates and outcomes
- Explores how social determinants of health, such as race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and access to healthcare contribute to disparities in injury rates and outcomes
- Equips readers with actionable insights, multidisciplinary approaches, and technological innovations that can be applied in various settings to create safer environments for children
Readership
Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
2. Epidemiological measures and methods of injuries
3. Why do children have accidents?
4. Transport injuries
5. Home injuries
6. Accidents and injuries in the school and play environment
7. Sports-related injuries
8. Other common injuries of children
9. Children's accidents in the workplace
10. Violence against children
11. Children's injuries in disasters
12. First aid for children's injuries
13. Prevention of children's injuries
14. Who is responsible?
15. The necessity of evaluation
16. Where are we going?
17. A summary of recommendations and ideas for the future
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: May 21, 2025
- Language: English
About the authors
About the authors
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Hamid Soori
Dr Hamid Soori holds a doctorate in Epidemiology, a master’s degree in public health from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, and MPH degree from University of Tehran Medical Sciences, Iran. During his career Dr Soori published 32 books and approximately 350 scientific articles. He also established the department of Epidemiology in Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran in 2003 and supervised tens of MSc and PhD students. He retired in 2018 and continued his activities as an Emeritus Professor at Cyprus International University. He has worked in various places such as the Ministry of Health, several medical universities, as well as the World Health Organization as an injury prevention consultant. He is a member of several national and international scientific associations such as the International Epidemiological Association, Injury Prevention Research Network, International Academy of Public Health, Iranian Epidemiological Association and Society for Social Medicine.
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Martha Orendu Oche Attah
Maria Orendu Oche Attah, Phd, MS, acquired her degrees in Human Anatomy from the University of Maiduguri, Nigeria. She currently serves as Assistant Professor and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Human Anatomy at Cyprus International University, Nicosia, Cyprus/University of Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria. She has over 25 articles published in notable international journals, and her current research interests focus on histology and embryology, wound healing, diabetes, and comparative anatomy.