Child Injury and the Determinants of Health

Dear Colleagues,

The World Health Organization recognizes that injuries are the leading cause of death and disability after a child’s first birthday in most countries around the world. There is also high morbidity associated with injuries sustained in childhood, often affecting the rest of their lives. For every child who dies from injury, there are several thousand who live with varying degrees of disability.

Children and adolescents (0–19 years of age) are at increased risk of mortality and morbidity due to injuries such as road traffic, burns, falls, poisoning, drowning, self-harm, and interpersonal violence. By understanding the impact of determinants of health (i.e., the social and economic environment, the physical environment, and a person’s individual characteristics and behaviors), effective prevention interventions can be implemented with high return on investment.

This Special Issue welcomes submissions of any type from scholars and practitioners from any discipline. Submissions may focus on child and adolescent intentional and unintentional injury and its prevention, exploring links to the determinants of health.

We particularly welcome works from developing nations and those nations with a high burden of child and adolescent injury and mortality. We are also encouraging of work submitted by emerging and early-career researchers.

Dr. Amy Peden
Dr. Richard Franklin
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Children is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.