Retrospective study of injury rates among children and adults in the Lublin Region of Poland.

Introduction And Objective: In Poland and worldwide, injury rates, as well as accident rates among children and adolescents still remain a social, health and economic problem, despite an attempt to inhibit the growing tendency of this phenomenon.

Objective: An attempt to evaluate current trends in injury rates among children and adolescents based on the example of two provinces in the Lublin Region of Poland during the period 2006-2010.

Materials And Method: The retrospective study was conducted by the method of examination of documents, using the technique of content analysis.