Analysis of child injury cases in Hebei Province from 2006 to 2012

Objective To understand and analyse the current situation of child injury in Hebei province. Methods Data derived from six injury surveillance sentinel hospitals in Hebei Province were collected and the child injury cases data from January 1,2006 to December 31,2012 were analyzed. Results From 2006 to 2012,16129 child injury cases accounting for 11.46% of the total number of injury cases monitored by injury monitoring system in Hebei province. The ratio of male to female was 2.35:1,showing significant differences between male and female injured(χ2=363.64,P0.01). Top five causes of injury were fall/fall(43.54%),motor vehicle traffic accident(16.40%),blunt injury(15.52%),non-motor vehicle traffic accident(6.20%)and knife/sharp device injury(5.91%). The places of injury were mainly roads/streets(31.95%),family(31.04%),schools and public places(16.52%),trade and service sites(8.46%),public residence(7.33%). Injured parts weremainly head(37.77%),upper limbs(23.60%),lower limbs(20.14%),multiple parts(6.63%) and trunk(5.77%). Most of the cases were not intentionally injury(90.18%),mild injury(73.55%). Conclusions The causes of injury,location,etc were closely related to the children's age,thus preventive activities be carried out taking into account the age of the children.