摘要:The purpose of this research is to
analyse occupational, household, sport and traffic related injuries among adolescents aged 14 to 17, during the
first half of the year 2000, in the city of L’Aquila (Italy). All the data have been collected from the files of the
Emergency Department. The occurrences have been 557: therefore 86 out of 1000 inhabitants have suffered
from the above listed injuries. Among these ones, sport related injuries show to be prevalent: car accidents,
occasional, household and professional injuries follow. Traffic related and occupational injury rates increase
in the eldest children. In fact the “risk profile” shows to be worse in younger children. The study shows a major
risk in 14 year old children, it is therefore necessary to focus on prevention and improvement in the data standardization,
collection and recording at the Emergency Departments.