ArticleArchives of disease in childhood2013
A child an hour: burden of injury deaths among children under 5 in Pakistan.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- The epidemiology of drowning in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2017Pooled it
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- Verbal autopsy instruments for 'causes and circumstances' surrounding drowning deaths in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2026Article
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- Unintentional injury deaths among children under five in Hunan Province, China, 2015-2020.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Analysis of characteristics and forecast of unintentional injury deaths of children under age 5 from 2013 to 2019 in Sichuan, China.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Estimation of the burden of out-of-hospital traumatic cardiac arrest in Karachi, Pakistan, using a cross-sectional capture-recapture analysis.International journal of emergency medicine · 2020Article
- Parental knowledge and beliefs on the use of child car restraints in Singapore: a qualitative study.Singapore medical journal · 2020Article
- An analysis of trends and distribution of the burden of road traffic injuries in Uganda, 2011 to 2015: a retrospective study.The Pan African medical journal · 2018Article
- Epidemiology of Injury-Related Death in Children under 5 Years of Age in Hunan Province, China, 2009-2014.PloS one · 2017Article
- The pediatric disease spectrum in emergency departments across Pakistan: data from a pilot surveillance system.BMC emergency medicine · 2015Article
- Pattern of presenting complaints recorded as near-drowning events in emergency departments: a national surveillance study from Pakistan.BMC emergency medicine · 2015Article
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Abstract
backgroundGlobally, more than 875 000 children under the age of 18 die due to injury every year. The rate of child injury death is 3.4 times higher in low-income and middle-income countries than in high-income countries.
objectivesTo study injury mortality burden among children under the age of 5 in Pakistan.
methodsDemographic and Health Survey in Pakistan was conducted from September 2006 until February 2007. It included 95 000 households, out of which 3232 households had death of a child under the age of 5 from January 2005 onwards. The Child Verbal Autopsy Questionnaire (CVAQ) was administered to these households with a response rate of 96%.
resultsFor age group 0-5 years, injury was the sixth leading cause of death and was responsible for 2.5% of all deaths (n=73). For age group 1-5 years, injury was found to be the third leading cause of death (11%) after diarrhoea (18%) and pneumonia (17%). The overall under fives mortality rate due to injury was estimated at 39.5 per 100 000 per year in Pakistan. Drowning (22%), road traffic injuries (12%), burns (11%) and falls (10%) were the most common types of injury. The mortality rate was twice as high in rural areas (32 per 100 000; 95% CI 18 to 45), compared to the urban areas (15 per 100 000; 95% CI 0.3 to 29).
conclusionsInjury is the third leading cause of deaths among children 1-5 in Pakistan. The burden is twice as high in rural areas.
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