Scary!

“In the world’s rich nations,
more than 20,000 children will
die from injuries in the next
twelve months.”
Injury is the principal cause of child death in all developed nations –
accounting for almost 40 per cent of deaths in the age group 1 to 14.
Taken together, traffic accidents, intentional injuries, drownings, falls,
fires, poisonings and other accidents kill more than 20,000 children
every year in the OECD nations.
Sweden, the United Kingdom, Italy and the Netherlands occupy the
top four places in the league table of child injury deaths. At the
bottom of the league are the United States and Portugal, where the
rate of child injury deaths is over twice the level of the leading
countries, and Mexico and South Korea where the rate is three to
four times higher (Figure 1).
Boys are 70 per cent more likely to die by injury than girls.
Traffic accident deaths account for 41 per cent of all child deaths by
injury.
There is a need for a better ‘fit’ between research findings and current
practice in injury prevention strategy.Many proven strategies for
injury prevention are inadequately implemented.

Furthermore, injury deaths are but the mortality tip of a
morbidity iceberg; for every injured child who dies, many
more live on with varying degrees and durations of
disability and trauma.

Safety, Safety, Safety!!! This is so scary to me. I worry so much about Jaxon!