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School Environment and School Injuries
Background: Although injuries at school are an important issue in public health, environmental factors in schools and school yards have seldom been the focus of school injury research. The goal of our investigation was to examine the effect of environmental factors on school injuries. Methods: Nine...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3888947/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24455667 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2013.00076 |
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author | Salminen, Simo Kurenniemi, Marja Råback, Mirka Markkula, Jaana Lounamaa, Anne |
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description | Background: Although injuries at school are an important issue in public health, environmental factors in schools and school yards have seldom been the focus of school injury research. The goal of our investigation was to examine the effect of environmental factors on school injuries. Methods: Nine comprehensive Finnish schools registered school injuries over a period of two school years. Injuries were classified as being associated with environmental factors, suspected environmental factors, and others. The consensus between two independent classifiers was 81%. Results: A total of 722 injuries were classified. In 11.6% of these injuries, the physical environment factor was evident, and in 28.1% of the injuries, physical environment was suspected of being a contributory risk factor. Thus the physical environment of the school was a contributing factor in over a third (39.7%) of injuries occurring in the school, on the school yard or during the journey to, or from school. In this study, conducted in Finland, ice on the ground was mentioned most frequently as an environmental risk factor. Conclusion: In Finland, the Nordic weather conditions are not taken into account in the school yard and playground plans as they ought to from the safety point of view. An initiative has been launched on a mandatory wintertime master plan for every school yard. |
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spelling | pubmed-38889472014-01-22 School Environment and School Injuries Salminen, Simo Kurenniemi, Marja Råback, Mirka Markkula, Jaana Lounamaa, Anne Front Public Health Public Health Background: Although injuries at school are an important issue in public health, environmental factors in schools and school yards have seldom been the focus of school injury research. The goal of our investigation was to examine the effect of environmental factors on school injuries. Methods: Nine comprehensive Finnish schools registered school injuries over a period of two school years. Injuries were classified as being associated with environmental factors, suspected environmental factors, and others. The consensus between two independent classifiers was 81%. Results: A total of 722 injuries were classified. In 11.6% of these injuries, the physical environment factor was evident, and in 28.1% of the injuries, physical environment was suspected of being a contributory risk factor. Thus the physical environment of the school was a contributing factor in over a third (39.7%) of injuries occurring in the school, on the school yard or during the journey to, or from school. In this study, conducted in Finland, ice on the ground was mentioned most frequently as an environmental risk factor. Conclusion: In Finland, the Nordic weather conditions are not taken into account in the school yard and playground plans as they ought to from the safety point of view. An initiative has been launched on a mandatory wintertime master plan for every school yard. Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-01-13 /pmc/articles/PMC3888947/ /pubmed/24455667 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2013.00076 Text en Copyright © 2014 Salminen, Kurenniemi, Råback, Markkula and Lounamaa. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Salminen, Simo Kurenniemi, Marja Råback, Mirka Markkula, Jaana Lounamaa, Anne School Environment and School Injuries |
title | School Environment and School Injuries |
title_full | School Environment and School Injuries |
title_fullStr | School Environment and School Injuries |
title_full_unstemmed | School Environment and School Injuries |
title_short | School Environment and School Injuries |
title_sort | school environment and school injuries |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3888947/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24455667 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2013.00076 |
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