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Titre :
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Hospitalizations due to falls in Jewish and Arab children in northern Israel. (2000)
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Auteurs :
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S. ITTAI ;
F. David ;
B.J. GAD ;
R. MOSHE ;
S. NAIM ;
J. VARDIT ;
Department of Pediatrics. Rambam Medical Center. Bruce Rappoport Faculty of Medicine. The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Haifa. ISR ;
Statistical Department of Haifa University. Haifa. ISR
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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European journal of epidemiology (vol. 16, n° 1, 2000)
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Pagination :
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47-52
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Traumatisme
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Hospitalisation
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Entrée
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Epidémiologie
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Incidence
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Enfant
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Homme
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Israël
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Asie
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Etude comparée
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Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST wR0x8Aun. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. In Israel, there are no epidemiological data regarding nonfatal childhood falls. A retrospective survey was conducted in order to find epidemiological characteristics of childhood falls among the different populations of northern Israel. During the years 1993 through 1995,3082 children were hospitalized in Rambam Medical Center (RMC) due to injury. The children were subdivided into the four main populations : Jewish and Arab residents of Haifa region (the main metropolitan area) and Jewish and Arab residents of the Galilee region (the rural region). All of the children who suffered injury that required mechanical ventilation and careful assessment were admitted to the PICU. The charts of the children admitted to the PICU were then further studied. The demographic characteristics of all the cases of falls were statistically analyzed and the annual admission rates due to falls were calculated using the national statistical registrations of children in Israel. Falls were responsible for 1049 admissions due to injury, one third of the total number of children who were admitted due to an injury. Most of the children were five years of age or younger. Two thirds of the total childhood falls were of Arabs. The majority of the admissions were of two major sub-populations of northern Israel : Arab residents of Galilee region (66%) and Jewish residents of Haifa region (34%). (...)
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