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Introduction to the Special Section on Child Injury: Reflecting on the Impact of Pediatric Psychology on Child Injury Prevention, Past and Present

In 2021, 13,469 American children ages 0–18 died from an injury (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2023). That figure suggests roughly 25,000 parents grieved the loss of a child, along with 50,000 grandparents and hundreds of thousands of siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends. Another 4.1 million American families brought their child to an emergency department for treatment after a serious injury (CDC, 2023). Annual economic costs from fatal and nonfatal pediatric injuries in the United States exceed $462 billion dollars. Globally, the numbers increase dramatically, with Global Burden of Disease estimates indicating about 600,000 annual pediatric fatalities from injury worldwide (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation [IHME], 2023).

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Posted in: Journal Article Abstracts on 09/09/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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