Injury Risk-Taking Behaviors in Children

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• Personal Author:
  O'Neal E ; Ramirez M
• Description:
  Unintentional injury is among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality across the world, and for children ages one to eighteen is their number-one killer. To inform the development of effective prevention strategies for children, public health research uses two frameworks for identifying causal pathways to injury. One approach, the epidemiologic triangle, involves identification of host, environmental, and agent (in the case of traumatic injury, the agent is energy; in the case of drowning, the agent is lack of oxygen; in the case of poisoning, the agent is a toxic substance) characteristics that increase risk of childhood injury. The second approach, the Haddon Matrix, builds on the epidemiologic triangle and identifies specific host, environmental, and agent factors that operate during pre-injury (prior to an injury occurring), injury (at the moment of injury), and post-injury phases. Both the epidemiologic triangle and the Haddon Matrix emphasize the complex interplay that occurs between host, environment, and agent, and demonstrate that these factors are not easily separable. Decades of research from epidemiology, behavioral health, and psychology have established that human/host behavior, specifically injury risk behaviors, contributes significantly to injury causation. Injury risk behaviors are defined broadly as classes or groups of actions taken on by the host (in this case, children) that increase the probability of injury, either directly or in synergistic interaction with the environment. This section highlights primarily empirical research on unintentional injury risk behaviors in children (generally within the age range of one to eighteen), methods used to measure and study injury risk behaviors, factors that influence behavior, and discrete behaviors (e.g., risky driving) associated with specific injury outcomes (e.g., traffic crashes). Selected works that deal with children older than eighteen are also presented to provide broader concepts with strong applicability to pediatric injury. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Epidemiology Mental Health Occupational Health Public Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Children Injuries Injury Prevention Psychological Processes Psychology Public Health
• Publisher:
  Oxford University Press
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  Iowa ; New York ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 7
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20063845
• Citation:
  Oxford bibliographies in public health. McQueen DV ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013 Sep; :online
• Contact Point Address:
  Elizabeth O'Neal, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, G60 Psychological and Brain Sciences Building, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1407
• Email:
  elizabeth-oneal@uiowa.edu
• Editor(s):
  McQueen DV
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2013
• Performing Organization:
  University of Iowa
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Oxford bibliographies in public health
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:447e008e635e9f89a258c1758d622b0fc4609bfc0b42303a9c5a617120b58b98d07293221ebc7bdd1e5a732a890d7a4f42f7c03f990919f65e0c20b27b05f314
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/222391/cdc_222391_DS1.pdf
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