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Injury-related mortality among adolescents: findings from a teaching hospital's post mortem data.
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- Epidemiology, Risk Factors and Measures for Preventing Drowning in Africa: A Systematic Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2019Pooled it
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- Self-reported injuries and correlates among school-going adolescents in three countries in Western sub-Saharan Africa.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Prevalence and Correlates of Unintentional Injuries among In-School Adolescents in Ghana.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Adolescent suicide in Ghana: a content analysis of media reports.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2015Article
- Estimating cause of adult (15+ years) death using InterVA-4 in a rural district of southern Ghana.Global health action · 2014Article
- Non-fatal injuries among pediatric patients seeking care in an urban Ghanaian emergency department.International journal of emergency medicine · 2012Article
- Injuries to the head and face in Brazilian adolescents and teenagers victims of non-natural deaths.The Journal of forensic odonto-stomatology · 2012Article
- Cause of death among Ghanaian adolescents in Accra using autopsy data.BMC research notes · 2011Article
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Abstract
backgroundInjuries are noted to be an important cause of death among adolescents. There is however limited data on the injury related deaths among adolescents in Ghana.
findingsUsing data from post-mortem records derived from the Department of Pathology of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH), Accra Ghana from 2001 to 2003, the causes of injury related deaths among adolescents 10 to 19 years were analyzed by gender and age groups 10 to 14 and 15 to 19 years. There were 151 injury-related deaths constituting 17% of the autopsies performed among adolescents in the study period. The male-to-female ratio was 2.1:1. Drowning was the most common cause of death (37%) in the study population. This was followed by road traffic accidents (RTA) (33%). Over 70% of the RTA victims were pedestrians knocked downed by a vehicle. Deaths from electrocution, poisoning, burns, stab/gunshot, hanging and other miscellaneous causes (example blast injury, traumatic injury from falling debris, fall from height) made up the remaining 30% of the injury related mortality. Among males and in both age categories, drowning was the leading cause of death. In females, the highest mortality was from road traffic accidents accounting for almost half (49%) of the deaths; significantly more than that occurring in males (25%, p = .004).
conclusionsFindings from Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital post-mortem data on adolescents show that drowning and road traffic accidents are the leading causes of injury-related mortality. Appropriate injury reducing interventions are needed to facilitate a decrease in these preventable deaths.
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