
Preventing Child & Youth Injuries: The Statistics are Shocking
September 2, 2018. Insights
In 1990, 10% of the 51 million deaths worldwide were due to injury. It is projected that by 2020, this figure will increase to 8.4 million annually, making injury the greatest single cause of loss of healthy years of human life, especially among children and young adults. According to the World Health Organization’s 2008 World…