Unintentional injuries among children aged 1-5 years: understanding the burden, risk factors and severity in urban slums of southern India

• Main Authors: Srujan Lam Sharma (Author), Samarasimha Reddy N (Author), Karthikeyan Ramanujam (Author), Mats Steffi Jennifer (Author), Annai Gunasekaran (Author), Anuradha Rose (Author), Sushil Mathew John (Author), Anuradha Bose (Author), Venkata Raghava Mohan (Author)
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• Udgivet: BMC, 2018-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Globally, 5.82 million deaths occurred among children under the age of five years in 2015 and injury specific mortality rate was 73 per 100,000 population. In India, injury specific mortality rate is around 2.1 per 1000 live births contributing to 4% of the total under 5 mortalit...