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The Scottish Health Survey 2011 - volume 2: children
Annual report of the Scottish Health Survey for 2011. Volume focussing on child health.
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Table 2.8 Types of injury, 2009 and 2011 combined, by age and sex
| Aged 0-15 who had an accident in the previous year | 2009 and 2011 combined | ||||||||
| Type of injury | Boys | Total Boys | Girls | Total Girls | Total 0-7 | Total 8-15 | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0-7 | 8-15 | 0-15 | 0-7 | 8-15 | 0-15 | ||||
| % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | |
| Broken bones | 12 | 28 | 23 | 11 | 24 | 18 | 11 | 27 | 21 |
| Dislocated joints | 3 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 5 |
| Losing consciousness | - | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 1 |
| Straining or twisting a part of the body | - | 29 | 19 | 4 | 31 | 18 | 2 | 29 | 19 |
| Cutting, piercing or grazing a part of the body | 45 | 18 | 27 | 38 | 18 | 27 | 41 | 18 | 27 |
| Bruising, pinching or crushing a part of the body | 19 | 23 | 21 | 30 | 22 | 25 | 24 | 22 | 23 |
| Swelling or tenderness in some part of the body | 25 | 36 | 32 | 22 | 31 | 27 | 23 | 34 | 30 |
| Getting something stuck in the eye, throat, ear or other part of the body | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Burning or scalding | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| Poisoning | - | 1 | 0 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 0 |
| Other injury to internal parts of the body | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 |
| Animal or insect bite or sting | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 0 | 0 |
| Other injury | 8 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 4 |
| Bases (weighted): | 90 | 169 | 259 | 78 | 90 | 168 | 168 | 259 | 427 |
| Bases (unweighted): | 76 | 131 | 207 | 78 | 75 | 153 | 154 | 206 | 360 |
Note: Columns add to more than 100% because in a few cases more than one injury was recorded.
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