Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Global childhood unintentional injury surveillance in four cities in developing countries: a pilot study

Adnan A Hyder, David E Sugerman, Prasanthi Puvanachandra, Junaid Razzak, Hesham El-Sayed, Andres Isaza, Fazlur Rahman & Margie Peden

Volume 87, Number 5, May 2009, 345-352

Table 1. Descriptive data surrounding childhood injuries (n = 1559): GCUIS data from four cities in Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt and Pakistan, 2007

RTI
 Fall
 Burn
 Poisoning
 Drowning
 Total
No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % No. %
How was child transported to hospital?
Private car 86 25 263 29 44 21 27 41 11 55 431 28
Ambulance 107 31 110 12 33 16 9 8 1 6 260 17
Motorcycle 17 5 26 3 1 0 4 6 1 5 49 3
Bicycle 3 1 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
Walking 31 9 123 13 18 9 7 11 2 10 181 12
Taxi 80 23 303 33 109 52 10 15 5 25 507 33
Other 26 7 85 9 4 2 9 14 0 0 124 8
Who took child to hospital?
Mother 111 32 376 41 78 37 35 53 6 30 606 39
Father 159 45 412 45 108 51 25 38 9 45 713 46
Other family member 51 15 92 10 22 10 6 9 5 25 176 11
Friend/teacher 7 2 21 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 30 2
Other 22 6 12 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 34 2
Where did injury occur?
Home (inside and outside) 62 17 588 64 161 77 50 76 11 55 872 56
Road, street, highway 279 80 44 5 2 1 1 2 2 10 328 21
Countryside/farm/marketplace 2 1 9 1 1 0 0 0 1 5 12 1
Industrial building/other public building 2 1 157 17 44 21 13 20 6 30 222 14
School/sports/play area 3 1 96 11 2 1 2 3 0 0 103 7
Other/refused/unknown/no answer 2 1 19 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 21 1

GCUIS, global childhood unintentional injury surveillance; RTI, road traffic injury.