Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Violence-related injury of children in Israel: age-dependent pattern

Michael Rozenfeld & Kobi Peleg

Volume 87, Number 5, May 2009, 362-368

Table 1. Violence-related and non violence-related trauma in children by sex, age group, ethnic group, location of violent event, day of the week and time of day, Israel, 1998–2006a

Variable Non violence-related Violence-related
trauma
 trauma
%b No. %b No.
Sexc
Male 68.3 43 253 86.7 1786
Female 31.7 20 084 13.2 271
Age groupc (years)
< 1 8.4 5 293 2.5 52
1–5 38.5 24 399 5 103
6–12 34.2 21 655 22.7 468
13–14 7.6 2 827 15.4 318
15–17 10.3 6 524 49.9 1027
Ethnic groupc
Jewish 63.3 40 108 63.2 1301
Non-Jewish 36.2 22 947 35.4 730
Violent event location
Street 29.2 18 514 34.7 714
School 6.3 3 989 15.1 311
Home 39.6 25 067 14.3 295
Public place or leisure facility 3.8 2 411 11.4 234
Other 21.1 13 389 24.5 506
Day of the week
Weekend 29.1 18 458 32.8 675
Weekday 70.9 44 912 67.2 1385
Time of dayc
06:00–15:59 (school time) 35.7 22 633 30.3 624
16:00–21:59 (after school) 48.2 30 515 34.7 714
22:00–05:59 (night) 15.8 9 983 34.7 715
All child injuries recorded in the Israeli Trauma Registry 96.9 63 370 3.1 2060


a The data were obtained from the Israeli National Trauma Registry.
b The difference between the figures for violence-related and non violence-related trauma is significant (P < 0.0001) for all variables except the day of the week.
c The total does not equal 2060 because some data are missing.