title: Socio-economic risk factors for injuries in Swedish children and adolescents: a national study over 15 years.
abstract: Few studies have assessed if Sweden's injury prevention work has been equally effective for children of different socio-economic backgrounds. The goal of this paper is to review the country's injury rates for children over time, stratified by socio-economic status (SES), to see if the effects are similar across SES levels. This study employs a retrospective case-control study design, using data from the hospitalisation records of 51,225 children, which were linked to family socio-economic data. Children and adolescents in families receiving social welfare benefits, and those living with single parents and mothers with less education had higher risks of injuries leading to hospitalisation. The population-based safety work over the past decades seems to have had only minor effects on reducing the impact of socio-economic based difference in injury risks to younger Swedes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden.
authors.forename: Cecilia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Nyberg
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schyllander
authors.forename: Diana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Stark Ekman
authors.forename: Staffan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Janson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D012923:Social Class; D013548:Sweden; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000209:etiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D055815:Young Adult