[Accident-related mortality in 5- to 9-year-old children].

Background: According to the WHO, insufficient attention is devoted to the problem of accident while more than one half of the death in children of 1 to 14 years of age in industrialized countries are caused by accidents.

Methods And Results: Nationwide statistical data from the Czech Republic have been evaluated and compared with those of selected European countries and the USA. In the years 1991-1993 average of 151 children died in the Czech Republic in the age group of 5- to 9-year olds.

[A Czech physician at the birth of pediatric medicine].

The author draws attention to the Czech physician J.J. Mastalir, who founded at the end of the 18th century in Vienna a surgery for poor sick children, one of the first ones in Europe.

[Changing trends in illegitimate live births in the Czech Republic].

The authors analyze changes in the rate of illegitimate births in the Czech Republic. They find that "the slowly but fluently increasing percentage of illegitimate live births..

[Infant mortality and mortality in older children in the Czech and Moravian Regions in 1988].

The authors compare the present infant mortality in Czech and Moravian regions with the mortality in comparable areas after the First World War. Attention is drawn to the possibility of a wider, more objective evaluation of reproductive losses by an indicator where in the numerator are infant deaths, stillborn infants and aborted foetuses with a body weight of more than 500 g and in the denominator live born infant. The results of evaluations in regions according to these larger reproductive losses differ considerably from the evaluation according to infant mortality and the order of regions is also different.