Childhood Death-map

[SoCalDem]

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How Kids Get Hurt
Experts Find Thousands of Childhood Deaths Preventable
By David Brown
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, December 23, 2008; Page HE01

Can a parent imagine something worse than the death of a child? Perhaps only the thought that it might have been prevented.
The Who, Where and Why of Accidental Childhood Deaths

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Each year in the United States about 12,200 people younger than 19 die of unintentional injuries. Around the world, fatal injuries in children total 830,000 a year, a number roughly equal to all the children in Chicago. That's 2,270 a day, of which at least 1,000 could have been prevented, experts say.
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This huge toll of heartbreaking death sits atop a pyramid of nonfatal injury. In the United States, 9.2 million children visit the emergency room each year for unintentional injuries. Globally, about 690 children miss school or work, or go to the hospital, for every child accidentally killed.

Public health authorities are lifting the curtain on childhood injury. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this month released an atlas and 114-page report on childhood injury. Simultaneously, the World Health Organization published a detailed report on the subject. (See sidebar on Page F5.)

American parents are notorious worriers. But the chance of their child dying of an unintentional injury is one-third that of children worldwide, and one-quarter that in Africa and the Middle East, the most child-dangerous regions.

Although the overall risk is relatively low, 44 percent of all deaths between ages 1 and 19 in this country are caused by injuries. The new reports show parents and policymakers where they might choose to focus their worries and efforts, from finding safe places for infants to sleep to being sticklers for the rules when teenagers get into cars.
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a curiosity to ponder:

[BrklynLiberal]

1. To make it clearer

The exceptions are few..

[SoCalDem]

2. I don't know why that silly map duped on me..

There's only one line of code..:rofl:

[BrklynLiberal]

3. I just needed to make it easier for myself, so I figured I might as well do it for everyone.

[SoCalDem]

8. Thanks.. I finally figured it out

DUH! ---->me:)

[BrklynLiberal]

13. I see you fixed it...

:thumbsup:

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Where did you get the first map, and what made you think of the comparison?

Oh..I see where the first map came from...Good eye seeing the analogous distribution.

[SoCalDem]

6. washington post.. and the similarity jumped out at me.. like the

slave state map/ compared to the '04 election :(

[w8liftinglady]

5. I am shocked that Texas isn't higher.

There are so many 4-wheeler,car, and rural accidents in my area,I expected to see the rate be one of the highest.

[SoCalDem]

7. Possibly because of the high Latino concentration?

Every Latino family I have ever known, watched their kids like hawks...

[Ilsa]

9. That's the opposite of what I have seen here in Texas.

We have big problems with parents letting toddlers go run through parking lots, they leave them in the toy section of stores while they shop, and don't supervise them out in the yard. It's very frustrating.

[MedleyMisty]

10. That's one of the many reasons why regional bigotry makes me so upset

Compare educational and poverty statistics too. It's classism, pure and simple - hating on the poor uneducated people. We don't need to be "reaching out" to their bigotry, but we also don't need to become bigots ourselves - we need to be funding and improving public schools and social programs and revitalizing the economy in these areas.

[izquierdista]

11. Analyzing data

It isn't a matter of "hating on poor uneducated people". Maps like this help to point out where the 'poor uneducated people' are (as if it wasn't already known). The next step is then, like you say, to improve public schools and fund social programs to help these people. Unfortunately, educating people is not always welcome. I was channel surfing yesterday and heard a new (for me) RW blowhard and he was condemning education because it was "full of liberals".

So, it is exasperating, frustrating, annoying, disappointing, and more to see pockets of 'poor uneducated people' causing themselves unneeded problems, but don't jump to the conclusion that the frustration expressed is upper classes hating on the lower classes.

[Confusious]

14. No I don't think its classism

These days, if you want to be a backward, stupid, ignorant, racist dumbass, you have to work at it. The South is where most of the ignorant people are. I got no problem if you're poor. I got a problem if you're a dumbass.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. My god, I am not alone in seeing the pattern

scary shit I tell you