Biomaterial Database

Child pedestrian injury 1978-87. 1992

I Roberts, and R Norton, and I Hassall

Auckland Injury Prevention Research Centre, University of Auckland Medical School.

OBJECTIVE to report the incidence of child pedestrian injury in New Zealand and review prevention strategies. METHODS examination of National Health Statistics Centre mortality and public hospital morbidity data from 1978-87. RESULTS over the ten year period, there was an annual average of 30 deaths (3.6/100,000 per year) and 411 hospitalisations (49.4/100,000 per year) for child pedestrian injury. There has been no significant reduction in the fatality or hospital morbidity rate over this time. Pedestrian fatality rates are highest for boys and for children in the youngest age groups. Hospitalisation rates are over 2.5 times higher for Maori children than for nonMaori children. CONCLUSIONS child pedestrian injury is an important public health problem in New Zealand for which there are few established prevention strategies. Controlled studies aimed at the identification of modifiable environmental factors are required.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007223	Infant	A child between 1 and 23 months of age.	Infants
D008297	Male		Males
D009520	New Zealand	A group of islands in the southwest Pacific. Its capital is Wellington. It was discovered by the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman in 1642 and circumnavigated by Cook in 1769. Colonized in 1840 by the New Zealand Company, it became a British crown colony in 1840 until 1907 when colonial status was terminated. New Zealand is a partly anglicized form of the original Dutch name Nieuw Zeeland, new sea land, possibly with reference to the Dutch province of Zeeland. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p842 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p378)
D002648	Child	A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL.	Children
D002675	Child, Preschool	A child between the ages of 2 and 5.	Children, Preschool,Preschool Child,Preschool Children
D005260	Female		Females
D006760	Hospitalization	The confinement of a patient in a hospital.	Hospitalizations
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000063	Accidents, Traffic	Accidents on streets, roads, and highways involving drivers, passengers, pedestrians, or vehicles. Traffic accidents refer to AUTOMOBILES (passenger cars, buses, and trucks), BICYCLING, and MOTORCYCLES but not OFF-ROAD MOTOR VEHICLES; RAILROADS nor snowmobiles.	Traffic Collisions,Traffic Crashes,Traffic Accidents,Accident, Traffic,Collision, Traffic,Collisions, Traffic,Crashes, Traffic,Traffic Accident,Traffic Collision
D000293	Adolescent	A person 13 to 18 years of age.	Adolescence,Youth,Adolescents,Adolescents, Female,Adolescents, Male,Teenagers,Teens,Adolescent, Female,Adolescent, Male,Female Adolescent,Female Adolescents,Male Adolescent,Male Adolescents,Teen,Teenager,Youths