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Child Injury Prevention and Safety

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Children's Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 5060

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Young Yi

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Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Seoul Paik Hospital, Inje University, Seoul 04551, Republic of Korea
Interests: orthopaedics; foot pathologies; epidemiology; pediatric injury; trauma; lower extremity disease; ankle disease; trauma prevention

Special Issue Information

Dear colleagues,

Child injuries are a growing global public health problem. They are a significant area of concern from the age of one year and progressively contribute more to overall rates of death until children reach adulthood. Hundreds of thousands of children die each year from injuries or violence, and millions of others suffer the consequences of non-fatal injuries. For each area of child injury, there are proven ways to reduce both the likelihood and severity of injury; however, awareness of the problem and its preventability, as well as political commitment to act to prevent child injury, remain unacceptably low.

This is an important step in advancing the field of child injury prevention. I encourage you to submit various types of papers, such as case reports, review articles, and research articles. The efforts of the participants will help to move to the next step.

Prof. Dr. Young Yi
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • child injury
  • prevention of child injury
  • emergency room care of child injury
  • pediatric trauma
  • pediatric surgery
  • case report
  • epidemiology
  • systemic review and meta-analysis

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Empowering Elementary and Middle School Youth to Speak Up and Be Safe: Advancing Prevention of Child Maltreatment with a Universal School-Based Curriculum
by Wendy Wolfersteig, Marisol Juarez Diaz and Diane Moreland
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(19), 11856; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191911856 - 20 Sep 2022
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Child maltreatment is a global public health problem, and school-based universal prevention programs such as the Speak Up Be Safe (SUBS) curriculum can be an effective solution to help address child violence. This randomized control study employed a pre-, post-, and six-month follow-up [...] Read more.
Child maltreatment is a global public health problem, and school-based universal prevention programs such as the Speak Up Be Safe (SUBS) curriculum can be an effective solution to help address child violence. This randomized control study employed a pre-, post-, and six-month follow-up design for students in kindergarten to grade 8, approximately ages 5–13 (n = 2797). Surveys measured the efficacy of the curriculum in increasing students’ knowledge of safety rules and self-protection strategies. The analyses explored the differences at follow-up between the conditions for each index/scale for each grade using an analysis of covariance, which controlled for the pre-survey scores. The SUBS group had significantly higher scores at follow-up than the students in the control group. This study showed that the students learned new knowledge and skills to act upon and identify child abuse and neglect in keeping themselves and others safe. Policy- and decision makers now know that as a child maltreatment prevention program, SUBS can be implemented universally in schools at a low cost, delivering an essential evidence-based safety curriculum that protects students from child maltreatment. Full article
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Awareness of Medical Doctors in Pusat Perubatan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia on Diagnostic Radiological Examination Related Radiation Exposure in the Pediatric Population
by Chee Guan Ng, Hanani Abdul Manan, Faizah Mohd Zaki and Rozman Zakaria
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(10), 6260; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19106260 - 21 May 2022
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Background: When exposed to equal radiation doses, the risks for children and adolescents are more significant than for adults. Children grow quickly, and their cells are more sensitive to radiation. After radiation exposure, children have a higher risk of developing malignancies such as [...] Read more.
Background: When exposed to equal radiation doses, the risks for children and adolescents are more significant than for adults. Children grow quickly, and their cells are more sensitive to radiation. After radiation exposure, children have a higher risk of developing malignancies such as leukemia, thyroid abnormalities, and various types of cancers. The healthcare professionals’ (in this context referring to medical doctors at all levels) awareness of imaging modalities associated with ionizing radiation is essential to ensure optimal patient management of cooperation in dealing with radiation exposure. Therefore, the present study is aimed to evaluate the awareness of healthcare professionals on medical imaging-related radiation exposure in the pediatric population in our center, Pusat Perubatan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among healthcare professionals using self-administered validated questionnaires in a university hospital for a duration of seven months. Healthcare professionals of all levels participated in this survey. Results: A total of 145 healthcare professionals participated in this study. More than half of the respondents are house officers, 57.2% (n = 83). Results indicated that only 6 out of 145 healthcare professionals who participated in this survey had attended a radiation protection course. This survey showed that 37.2% of the respondents were unaware that chest radiographs would expose patients to ionizing radiation. Finally, results also indicated that senior doctors (21 out of 24 participants) showed better awareness of radiation protection knowledge. Conclusions: In general, healthcare professionals in our institution are inadequate in awareness of medical radiation exposure, particularly among house officers. However, the awareness of radiation safety and exposure improves with the number of years of clinical practice. We propose that some younger healthcare professionals do not take radiation safety seriously. Moreover, we would like to suggest all healthcare professionals must attend a radiation safety course, as we expect this will improve patient outcomes. Full article
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