Social determinants of child and adolescent traffic-related and intentional injuries: a multilevel study in Stockholm County.

Several significant developmental and socialisation processes in the life of children and adolescents take place in the area where they live. The extent to which they can feel and be safe in this environment is an important component of the success of those processes. This study highlights the independent contribution of neighbourhood and individual-level demographic and socioeconomic attributes to child and adolescent injuries.

The area-based social patterning of injuries among 10 to 19 year olds. Changes over time in the Stockholm County.

Background: Area-based studies of childhood injuries strongly suggest that neighborhood socio-demographic and economic circumstances impact on various - though not all - types of injuries. The primary aim of this study was to investigate the stability over time of the association between area characteristics and childhood injuries of various causes.

Methods: Register-based and ecological, the study encompassed Stockholm County's 138 parishes, and considered two time periods (1993-95; 2003-05).