Characteristics of unintentional and intentional injuries among children from emergency and outpatient rooms in China, 2006-2014

Objective To explore characteristics of unintentional and intentional injury among children aged 0-17 in China. Methods Data collected from National Injury Surveillance System through 2006 to 2014 were analyzed. Results The proportion of intentional injuries was declining through 2006 to 2014. Among cases collected in 2014, unintentional injury and assault were higher in boys, while self-harm was similar between boys and girls. The top three causes were falling, road traffic injury and blunt injury for unintentional injury, poisoning, sharp injury and falling for self-harm, blunt injury, sharp injury and animal injury for assault. The top location injury occurred were home for unintentional injury and self-harm, while school and public place was the top one for assault. Proportion of moderate and severe injuries among self-harm were higher than that in unintentional injury and assault. There were differences between different gender and age. Conclusions It's necessary to have a good understanding of child injuries for prevention.