Unintentional injury increases with deprivation
Steep socioeconomic gradients exist for injury related morbidity in
children aged under 15, and particularly in those aged under 5. Hippisley-Cox and colleagues (p 1132) conducted a cross sectional
survey using over 50 000 injury related hospital admissions for
children aged 5 to 15 between 1992 and 1997. They found the socioeconomic gradient for injury mechanism to be steepest for pedestrian injuries, burns and scalds, and poisoning. Transport related
injuries are, after falls, the leading cause of injury related
admissions to hospital in older children.
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