Child & youth unintentional injury : Child and youth unintentional injury : 1994-2003, 10 years in review

In Canada, injuries to it is time to change the pervasive belief Canada needs a strategic vision for sus- children cost $4 billion a year.2 that injuries are “acts of fate” and to tainable investment in injury prevention, Safe Kids Canada is part of Safe Kids encourage society to view injuries as with a goal of improving the coordina- Worldwide, a global network of organi- practitioners do – as si [...] There was no decline in children under age 1; the overestimate their own skills, under- wide fluctuations in the graph for that age group are due estimate the depth of the water or to the small number of cases. [...] Threat to breathing is predominantly an issue for The high incidence of choking – both on food and children under age 5, particularly under age 1. other objects – highlights the need to educate The data shows an encouraging decline in rates for parents of young children about choking hazards and these age groups; there was a 48% decline in chil- to continue to enhance standards to reduce these dre [...] This downward trend may dropped by approximately one-third in every age cyclists when they ride in traffic and speaks to the be due in part to changes in helmet use and the group (children ages 1 to 4 by 35%; ages 54 to 9 by importance of creating safer environments for cycl8ists. [...] This means the child under age 5 have the lowest number • Each year, Canadian children have an may have been trying to cross the of pedestrian injuries; these can occur approximate 1 in 104,600 risk of dying street in the middle of the block, walk- in a driveway or when a child enters and a 1 in 7,600 risk of being seriously ing out from between parked cars, the road from a driveway or between inj