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Injury morbidity in 18-64 year-olds — impact and risk factors
Author(s)	Emma Plugge, Sarah Stewart-Brown, Marian Knight
Journal title	Journal of Public Health Medicine, vol 24, no 1, March 2002
Pages	pp 27-33
Keywords	Injuries ; Surgery visits ; Social surveys ; Oxfordshire ; Buckinghamshire ; Berkshire ; Northamptonshire.
Annotation	Non-fatal injury is an important public health problem, but is thought difficult to quantify. Secondary analysis of data from a postal questionnaire survey to 8,889 18-64-year-olds selected from general practice records in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Nottinghamshire found 16% of respondents had reported an injury requiring medical attention in the previous 12 months. 5% reported an injury that had disabled them for more than 1 month, and a further 5% a longstanding disability as a result of injury. SF-36 scores suggest that the quality of life of those reporting injury-related disability was markedly reduced. Social class is associated less with injury morbidity than with injury mortality. Sport was the commonest cause of all injuries. Thus, use of postal questionnaires makes it potentially feasible to monitor and ascertain the extent of injury-related disability. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-020328203 A
Classmark	CU: L5B: 3F: 8O: 8BU: 8BE: 8NA
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