title: [An investigation on the epidemiology of injuries in middle school students].
abstract: In November 1996, we made an investigation among 1194 students from 25 of grade 2 classes at 4 middle schools in our city. The result shows that a total of 13 different kinds of injuries happened to the students, with a rate of 81.66%. Among which, 7 kinds of injuries took the first 7 places: injuries from falls (39.78%), knife-cutting (37.68%), throat injuries by sharp bone blocks (36.09%), traffic accidents (18.17%), bumping to sharp materials (17.08%), burns (17.08%) and by sharp-weapon hurt (16.83%). We also made an investigation on the causes and characteristics and related factors of injuries. Thus some preventive measures were preliminarily put out.
authors.affiliation: Wujin Municipal Sanitation and Antiepidemic Station.
authors.forename: X S
authors.initials: XS
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Y Q
authors.initials: YQ
authors.lastname: Xuan
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zhu
mesh_terms: D000058:Accidental Falls / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000293:Adolescent; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010614:Pharynx / Q000293:injuries; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014950:Wounds, Penetrating / Q000453:epidemiology