Child and youth injuries in Nova Scotia 1995-2004

In particular, the Department of Health Promotion and Protection acknowledges with great appreciation the contributions made by the members of the steering committee established to help guide the development of this report and assist in the data analysis and interpretation. [...] We have made progress in Nova Scotia, through the Department of Health Promotion and Protection and many community partners, to improve the health and safety of children and youth. [...] The histogram at the bottom of the chart provides a distribution of the anatomic sites of injuries for those injuries. [...] Children between the ages of 0 and 4 had the greatest proportion of injuries to the brain, the head and neck, and the torso that resulted in an injury hospitalization. [...] Falls also contributed to high incidences of brain, head, and neck injuries for children between the ages of 0 and 4. Twenty-nine per cent of unintentional fall hospitalizations among 0- to 4-year-olds involved brain injuries, and 13 per cent of injury-related hospitalizations involved injuries to the head or neck.