[Accidents in the ocular area in children. An epidemiologic study and the medicosocial implications]

Oftalmologia. 1997;41(1):28-33.
[Article in Romanian]

Abstract

The authors have studied 202 ocular accidents with children, with a special insistence on epidemiology and medico-social implications. The accidents entail three important factors: the person liable to have an ocular accident, the agent provocateur, and a favourable human-social context. These factors were deeply analysed through a lot of parameters in a correlative manner. The authors demonstrate that the representative accidents are not usually unforeseeable incidents but they are avoidable and they have a prophylaxis with large means that can be applied. There were also attacked medico-social implications of the ocular accidents with a special insistence on the potential of invalidating consequences.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Accidents / statistics & numerical data*
  • Adolescent
  • Age Distribution
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Eye Injuries / epidemiology*
  • Eye Injuries / etiology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Male
  • Prospective Studies
  • Romania / epidemiology
  • Sex Distribution