PEDIATRICS Vol. 75 No. 3 March 1985, pp. 456-462
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Traumatic Deaths of Children in the United States: Currently Available Prevention Strategies

Frederick P. Rivara MD, MPH1

1 From the Department of Pediatrics and Community Medicine, University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences and LeBonheur Children's Medical Center, Memphis

The causes of traumatic deaths of children 14 years of age and younger in the United States are presented. Available prevention strategies to decrease injury fatalities due to various causes are described, and the number of preventable deaths is calculated. With the implementation of only 12 currently available prevention strategies, childhood deaths from trauma could be reduced by 29% in the United States. The implications of these strategies are discussed, as well as the areas for which no effective countermeasures exist and which require further epidemiologic and investigative research.

Key Words: traumatic death • injury fatalities

Submitted on November 10, 1983
Accepted on April 27, 1984




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