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HEALTH & HYGIENE

Asthma
8.9% of pupils reported that they had asthma. 13.7% reported that they had taken medicine for asthma in the last 7 days. Q25. Percentage answering that they had asthma
  Your Survey Reference Sample
Year 5 6 5 6
Boys 9.6 9.7 8.8 7.2
Girls 7.1 8.9 8.8 7.6
Accidents
33.4% reported that they had had an accident outside school in the last 12 months that was treated by a doctor or nurse. Q27. Percentage answering that they had had an accident in the last 12 months that was treated by a doctor or nurse.
  Your Survey Reference Sample
Year 5 6 5 6
Boys 36.5 34.7 38.9 40.1
Girls 37.1 38.9 42.8 43.6


If the pupils answered 'Yes' to the previous question they were asked to report what sort of accident/injury it was. The four most common were (wider data in brackets):

BOYS     GIRLS    
1 Bruise, graze or sprain 13.4% (14.9%) 1 Bruise, graze or sprain 15.3% (14.2%)
2 Had a cut 12.5% (13.7%) 2 Had a cut 10.9% (9.5%)
3 Had a broken bone 8.5% (9.2%) 3 Had a broken bone 5.0% (6.5%)
4 Choking 3.3% (3.3%) 4 Choking 2.4% (3.8%)

Notes on Accidents

In Britain, unintentional injuries constitute the leading cause of death for young people aged 1-15, are a major cause of ill health in children.

Mortality from injuries tends to be relatively high in the first year of life and declines steadily thereafter until 15-19. Over half the fatal accidents in very young children occur at home, but once children reach school age there is an increase in deaths through road accidents. About three-quarters of all accidental deaths among those aged 15-24 are caused by road traffic accidents (Aggleton, 1996).

Our Healthier Nation White Paper

This states that the UK has lower death rates from road accidents than in most other European countries and that a substantial fall has been observed in the rate of children killed in accidents over the last 25 years. A contributing factor could be that fewer children are allowed out alone. This fall is obviously encouraging, however, in other areas the record is less good, such as in the rates of death in childhood from pedestrian accidents in this country being amongst the highest in Europe.

The target set within the White Paper is:

To reduce the death rates from accidents by at least one fifth and to reduce the rate of serious injury from accidents by at least one tenth by 2010 saving up to 12,000 lives in total.




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