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Death in childhood and adolescence: Accident!
In childhood and adolescence periods, individuals encounter many dangerous situations caused by not completing their biological and psychological development. Some of them are pathological deaths such as accidents, poisoning, and traumatic actions for children. Awareness of the number and causes of...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7586518/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33110771 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_465_20 |
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description | In childhood and adolescence periods, individuals encounter many dangerous situations caused by not completing their biological and psychological development. Some of them are pathological deaths such as accidents, poisoning, and traumatic actions for children. Awareness of the number and causes of death is an indicator that reflects the health status of our society. It is also vital in-service planning for both preventive and therapeutic medical professions. The purpose of this article is to evaluate death cases between the ages of 0–18 in terms of forensic medicine. As a result, it has been understood that accidents are an important cause of death in childhood. In particular, developing policies to protect against common accidents will reduce the mortality rates of children. |
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spelling | pubmed-75865182020-10-26 Death in childhood and adolescence: Accident! Keten, Alper J Family Med Prim Care Commentary In childhood and adolescence periods, individuals encounter many dangerous situations caused by not completing their biological and psychological development. Some of them are pathological deaths such as accidents, poisoning, and traumatic actions for children. Awareness of the number and causes of death is an indicator that reflects the health status of our society. It is also vital in-service planning for both preventive and therapeutic medical professions. The purpose of this article is to evaluate death cases between the ages of 0–18 in terms of forensic medicine. As a result, it has been understood that accidents are an important cause of death in childhood. In particular, developing policies to protect against common accidents will reduce the mortality rates of children. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-08-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7586518/ /pubmed/33110771 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_465_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Keten, Alper Death in childhood and adolescence: Accident! |
title | Death in childhood and adolescence: Accident! |
title_full | Death in childhood and adolescence: Accident! |
title_fullStr | Death in childhood and adolescence: Accident! |
title_full_unstemmed | Death in childhood and adolescence: Accident! |
title_short | Death in childhood and adolescence: Accident! |
title_sort | death in childhood and adolescence: accident! |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7586518/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33110771 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_465_20 |
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