Childhood Unintentional Injuries - PDF
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Running head: CHILDHOOD UNINTENTIONAL INJURIESChildhood Unintentional InjuriesName of StudentName of UniversityAuthor Note
1CHILDHOOD UNINTENTIONAL INJURIESQuestion 1AUnintentional childhood injuries are one of the main reasons of mortality and morbidity in theUnited States according to Centres of Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC). According totheir estimation, annually 12,000 children aged 0-19 years (1). Mainly two strategies are adoptedto address the issue, high-risk approach and population strategy. The high-risk interventionsidentify the risk associated with an incident above a threshold level and attempt to decreases theseverity with respect to the individual needs. The population interventional strategies minimizethe risk factor in an epidemiological level (2). The types of high-risk intervention strategies aretemporal interventional strategies that can help reduce the risk of such injuries in children like,primary prevention, secondary prevention and tertiary prevention. Targeted prevention includesuniversal prevention, selective intervention and indicated intervention. For population-basedapproach to unintended childhood injury, the approach is to address the social economic andenvironmental conditions. A population-level approach tries to modify the situation via policy,guidelines, modifications in practices, or changing the social stereotypes, by creating a culturalidea of wellness and an environment that supports healthy practices and minimizes risk of injuryin children. One example of a high risk intervention includes approaches or efforts that can beimplemented to reduce the prevalence rates of burn related accidental injury among children.Example of a population based approach is related to effective implementation of measures thatreduce the rates of road accidents, thereby lowering rates of unwanted child injuries.
2CHILDHOOD UNINTENTIONAL INJURIESFig 1: Sick individuals and sick populationsSource: (2)1bAccording to the Geoffrey Rose’s “theory of prevention”, he compared the ideologies of bothhigh-risk prevention and populations in his paper “Sick individuals and sick populations.” Rosepresents the idea that these strategies prevent the diseases or in this case the prevention ofunintended injuries in children (2).High-risk intervention technique identifies the risk of an individual and analyses thesituation to provide best possible outcome. The approach is very individual oriented and personalcare. The advantage of this approach is that individuals will receive personal care andinterpersonal interventions, which will help them, feel motivated. Willingly it would be able tohelp them. In case of prevention of unintended injuries, a child’s surrounding can be analyzedand according that the risk assessment can be done. Involving the parents in the interventionprocess, will help make sure that the child is under constant adult supervision. Fall associatedinjuries can also be prevented with this approach (3). Other potential reasons of intervention liketransportation risk of injury can also be prevented by advising the adults or guardians of the child
3CHILDHOOD UNINTENTIONAL INJURIESto be careful while driving when the child is present. The obvious advantage of high riskapproach is that it is a cost-effective procedure rather than epidemiological processes. Theidentified high-risk participants are more motivated for the change of behaviour and I am moremotivated than society as a whole. Healthcare providers find much easier to deal with individualclients and address the issues rather than a larger population. It is easier to identify theindividuals and educate them since they are completely aware of the issue in comparison topopulation studies. Disadvantage of this approach is that wider perspective of the riskidentification is missing. The risk of unintended child injury varies with respect to location,community, background and socio-economic factors (4).The advantage of population strategy approach is that effect of the trains occurs at alarger quantity than individual high risk approach. This point of intervention approach is able torecognize the factors that influence society as well as individual behaviour. Decrease in therespective can be possible at an epidemiological level rather than individual centred means.Scenarios where the relationship between health promoters and the receiver dose responserelationship assessment of risk exposure as well as entire shift of the population will effectivelylower the risk factor (5). The whole awareness of the population will induce everyone to be moreconscious and prevent future injuries in children. The mass effect of the change will ultimatelylower the risk of childhood injury and promote better and healthy lifestyle for longer period.Addressing the needs of the population will improve parent education when they will be able toinfluence other parents for better supervision of children rather than individual needs. Thedrawback of this kind of approach is that although the larger effect will be visible in thepopulation it will be difficult to focus on the smaller problem. The population strategy approachfocuses to prevent the incident, which help, minimize the risks associated with unintended
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