Elías M Morón, Richard Singer
An interprofessional school-based initiative to increase access to oral health care in underserved Florida counties
Journal of public health dentistry
reports childrens playrelated injuries remained stagnant according epidemiology studies past 3 decades article provides unique look context playground injuries within entire school district demonstrating prevalence injuries study reports playgrounds leading location school injury comprising onethird elementary school injuries study found headneck injuries commonly injured body region within playground environment proportion headneck injuries decreased age whereas proportion extremity injuries increased age least 1 upper extremity injury required outside medical attention every 4 treated onsite making upper extremity injuries roughly twice likely require outside medical attention injuries body regions data study useful interpreting injury patterns context evaluation existing safety standards playgrounds