Table 2
Trends in child injury from included studies
| Author (year of publication) | Trend in unintentional injury mortality | ||||||
| All cause injury mortality | RTI | Burns/fires | Drowning | Falls | Poisoning | Other | |
| High income countries | |||||||
| Birken (2006) |
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|
| Suffocation 
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| Edwards (2006) |
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| Flanagan (2005) |
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| Guyer (2000) |
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| Jansson (2006) |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| Johansson (2005) |
|
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| Kivist (2009) |
0–4 years, 
5–15 years | ||||||
| Lantto (2008) |
|
|
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| Li (2001) |
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| Lie (1990) |
, except 15 years, 19 years where 
|
, except 15–19 years where 
| |||||
| Lunetta (1998) |
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| Lunetta (2004) |
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| Mattila (2005) |
|
|
boys, 
girls | ||||
| Nakahara (2002) |
| ||||||
| Olson (1990) |
but ethnic disparities 
|
|
|
| Aspiration 
| ||
| Pan (2006, 2007) |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| Pakkari (2000) |
|
|
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| Pearson (2009) |
|
|
boys, 
girls | ||||
| Peck (2007) |
; 
or 
in some former USSR countries |
; 
or 
in some former USSR countries |
; 
or 
in some former USSR countries |
; 
or 
in some former USSR countries |
; 
or 
in some former USSR countries | ||
| Pressley (2007) |
but ethnic disparities 
|
but ethnic disparities 
except pedestrian deaths |
and ethnic disparities 
|
but ethnic disparities 
|
and ethnic disparities 
|
but ethnic disparities 
for firearms and unintentional suffocation | |
| Schlueter (2004) |
|
|
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| Singh (1996) |
|
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| Singh (2007) |
but socioeconomic disparities 
| ||||||
| Middle income countries | |||||||
| Chien (2010) |
|
|
| Earthquake trauma 
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| Danilla (2004) |
but least for 15–19 years | ||||||
| Lu (1998) |
|
|
|
|
10–14 years, 
15–19 years |
| |
| Mujkic (2008) |
| Weapon related 
| |||||
| Strukcinskeine (2008a, 2008b) |
|
0–14 years 
15–19 years |
|
| |||
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Trends symbols:
=falling;
=stable (no significant change);
=rising;
=variable; blank=not reported. The study by Peck (2007) reports data from 20 countries, both high and middle income, with trends varying between countries.
