Causes of XXXX among schoolchildren in Thailand.

@entity1 @entity204 @entity166 @entity9737 @entity130
Few prospective studies of mortality among @entity1 in developing countries have been published. Here we quantify and describe mortality and injury morbidity among a cohort of schoolchildren in rural Southeast Asia. @entity204 among a cohort of 40,119 schoolchildren in Thailand were prospectively monitored over a two year period from January 1991. Additionally, data were collected with a questionnaire from a subset of 6,378 @entity1 asking them to recall all @entity130 over a one-year period. There were 40 @entity204 for an annual incidence of 50/100,000. Fifty percent of all @entity204 were due to injury; 25% to @entity166 . Sixty percent of the @entity204 were due to motor vehicles and 35% to drowning. Sixty-six percent of the @entity1 reported one or more accidents. The leading categories of non-fatal @entity130 , in decreasing order, were: animal bite, @entity9737 wound, burn, near-drowning, fall from a height. @entity1 experienced more @entity130 than @entity1 for almost every @entity130 . Injuries are replacing @entity166 as the most important cause of @entity204 in developing countries. Additional public health initiatives to reduce childhood accidents may be warranted.
