Epidemiology of non-fatal accidents and the development of the accident rate in children over the past decade in the Czech republic. A shift in the hitherto trend ?
Abstract
According to the Czech healthcare database UZIS CR, a child accident requiring medical attention, in the course of the past decade had at first befallen every fifth child and at its close up to every third child. According to recent accident data in the UZIS CR database the hitherto accident trend in the child population is changing at present and the number of accidents treated at healthcare facilities is decreasing on a year-to-year basis (in 2007 by 4%, in 2008 even by more than 10%).
Our current epidemiological data do not confirm that trend, to the contrary they point to a significant increase in the child accident rate in the order of several percent as against epidemiological data covering the latter half of the 1990s. Of course, interesting in this connection is the congruence of the data of the mean of injury incidence for the years 1998 and 2008 (of 16.3% vs 19.0%) and the analogous injury data from the healthcare database UZIS CR (of 24.1% vs 25.9%).