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Figure 6.8 Consequences of child injury, Beijing, 2003

10/01/2015

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Source: National Working Committee on Children and Women and United Nations Children’s Fund, Beijing Child Injury Survey, 2005

Figure 6.8
UNICEF-funded surveys in Beijing show that injury, even when non-fatal, has many other impacts, leading to permanent disability, hospitalization and missed schooling. For every death due to injury, there were three cases of permanent disability, 18 cases requiring hospitalization for ten days or more, 35 cases requiring hospitalization for one to nine days and 238 cases requiring medical care or at least one day of absence from school.

“Injuries account for more than 10 per cent of all deaths and more than 30 per cent of all potentially productive years of life lost in China. Traffic-related injuries (mainly among cyclists and pedestrians), suicide, drowning, and falls account for 79 per cent of all injury deaths. Rural injury death rates are double those of urban rates and male rates are double those of female rates.”

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