Τίτλος:
Socio-cultural predictors of injuries: life-course experience of
hospitalised injuries during the past century in the Velestino study
Γλώσσες Τεκμηρίου:
Αγγλικά
Περίληψη:
Retrospective reviews provide unique opportunity to assess changing
approaches to trauma in recent history and identify modifiable
behaviours through the lessons of the past. The objective of this paper
is to depict the nearly one-century long, life-course injury experience
of seniors residing in Velestino, an agricultural Greek town, and
comment on neglected determinants and transitional patterns following
historical and socio-cultural events in the area. The life-course
experience of non-fatal injuries, requiring hospitalisation, has been
reported by N = 643 study participants, aged 65-102years. Injuries were
grouped and assessed in three ways: chronologically, by body part and by
type. Overall, 124 injuries have been recorded over the past 70years;
the majority sustained by men (58.6%), and the highest number of
injuries occurred during the recent decades, 1980s-1990s. For the age
groups 26-45 and 46-65years old, traffic (37.5% and 22.2%) and
occupational (25.0% and 22.2%) events have been the commonest cause of
injury, whereas injuries occurring at home were primary hazard (25.8%)
for the elderly. Moreover, meaningful historical connections with
warfare and migration movements were made. In retrospect, socio-cultural
factors emerge as important predictors of certain injuries, pointing to
the number of factors that should be taken into account when designing
injury-prevention programmes.
Συγγραφείς:
Kousoulis, Antonis A.
Michelakos, Theodoros
Katsiardani,
Kalliopi-Pinelopi
Katsiardanis, Konstantinos
Anastasiou,
Anastasia
Petridou, Eleni Th.
Περιοδικό:
International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion
Εκδότης:
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD LONDON
Λέξεις-κλειδιά:
history; 20th century; wounds and injuries; accidents; cross-sectional
studies; war; agriculture; occupational injuries; craniocerebral trauma
DOI:
10.1080/17457300.2013.796389
