Abstract

Results:  In this seven year period, 1040 children in Yazd province died due to unintentional injuries. The most commonly affected age group was 15-19 years. YLL due to childhood unintentional injury in our study was 77127 years [male/female ratio: 2.52] accounting for near 15% of all cause YLL. The leading causes of YLL were road traffic injuries [68.63%], burns [7.73%] and drowning [6.72%] causing the loss of 52933, 5961 and 5182 years respectively. Injury mortality rate per 100000 was 45.5 in 2004 and 43.1 in 2010. Injury YLL in 2004 and 2010 was 12062 and 11153 years respectively. Conclusion: Considering little change of health burden of injuries in children despite health promoting actions, these findings can serve as an alarm for health care professionals and policymakers to implement more robust preventive measures. Considering different gender and seasonal patterns in developing prevention strategies can increase the real effectiveness of these measures.