Epidemiology of paediatric injury.

AJ Mazurek - Emergency Medicine Journal, 1994 - emj.bmj.com
Thousands of young lives are lost every year as a result of accidents, and trauma remains
the number one cause of paediatric death. There is a pattern and regularity to children's …

Agricultural injury

SA McCurdy, DJ Carroll - American journal of industrial …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Background Agriculture is one of the most hazardous industries in the US. Methods We
reviewed MEDLINE and NIOSHTIC to identify English‐language studies addressing …

Antecedents of injury among youth in agricultural settings: A longitudinal examination of safety consciousness, dangerous risk taking, and safety knowledge

JD Westaby, BC Lee - Journal of safety research, 2003 - Elsevier
Problem: Injuries are the leading cause of death for adolescents in the United States.
Methods: This study longitudinally examined three psychological mediators of injury among …

Fatal and non-fatal farm injuries to children and adolescents in the United States, 1990-3.

FP Rivara - Injury Prevention, 1997 - injuryprevention.bmj.com
OBJECTIVE: Examine the current magnitude of the injury problem to children and
adolescents on farms, and to compare these data to that from 1978-83. DATA SOURCES …

Nonfatal farm injury incidence and disability to children: a systematic review

DB Reed, DT Claunch - American journal of preventive medicine, 2000 - Elsevier
Objective: To summarize the literature on farm child nonfatal injury incidence and the
subsequent disability to children. Search Strategy: We used a systematic process to search …

Factors influencing exposure of children to major hazards on family farms

BC Lee, LS Jenkins, JD Westaby - The Journal of Rural Health, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
On family farms, parents are usually knowledgeable of high‐risk activities, yet they allow
their children to be active participants in (or bystanders to) hazardous work for reasons not …

Agricultural work activities reported for children and youth on 498 North American farms

B Marlenga, W Pickett, RL Berg - Journal of agricultural safety …, 2001 - elibrary.asabe.org
Children are at high risk for agricultural injury, yet there is little documentationabout the
range of farm work that children perform or the ages at which childrenexperience these work …

Do parents' perceptions of risks protect children engaged in farm work?

J Zentner, RL Berg, W Pickett, B Marlenga - Preventive medicine, 2005 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: The purpose was to describe farm parents' perceptions of risks on their
farms and determine if these perceptions were associated with (1) using of the North …

Injuries in Ontario farm children: a population based study

C Bancej, T Arbuckle - Injury Prevention, 2000 - injuryprevention.bmj.com
Objectives—To evaluate injury rates, patterns, and risk factors in 4916 Ontario farm children
aged 0–18 years. Setting—1765 full time family operated Ontario farms with a husband-wife …

A population based case-control study of agricultural injuries in children.

DT Stueland, BC Lee, DL Nordstrom… - Injury …, 1996 - injuryprevention.bmj.com
OBJECTIVES: To identify preventable risk factors related to agricultural injuries occurring to
children on family farms. SETTING: A geographically defined central region of Wisconsin …