title: Accidental childhood fatalities in Manipal, India.
abstract: Children in the first decade of life are extremely vulnerable to accidents. Seventy-five cases of accidental deaths in children aged less than ten years were identified in a retrospective review of medicolegal autopsies during 1993-2006 in Manipal, India. Boys were more likely to suffer accidental death that girls (male-female ratio 2.3:1). Road traffic accidents accounted for the majority of the deaths (56%), followed by burns (21.4%).
authors.affiliation: Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, India. tanujkanchan@gmail.com
authors.forename: Tanuj
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kanchan
authors.forename: Ritesh G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Menezes
mesh_terms: D000059:Accidents / Q000401:mortality*; D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000401:mortality*; D017677:Age Distribution; D001344:Autopsy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002056:Burns / Q000401:mortality*; D002423:Cause of Death; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008499:Medical Records; D017678:Sex Distribution