Through popular notions of accidents and media interpretation of injuries, many people have a perception that mostly all injuries are deemed to be \u201caccidents\u201d and are therefore part of everyday life. However, what people don\u2019t notice is that many of these injuries are preventable if certain regulations, laws, and practices are implemented. For instance, seat belt safety and the widening of roads have decreased the amount of motor vehicle crash and lessened the severity of motor vehicle related injuries.<\/p>\n
Many people also don\u2019t know the trends that occur or the statistics that relate to injury. A lot of this information had been mainly for academic or medical uses only, but not for the public. The public\u2019s knowledge on injury is mainly grounded on the media and it\u2019s representation of injuries. Using a Pediatric Trauma Database from 2007-2012 and a paper on Pediatric Trauma, I have compiled a plethora of graphs and charts that represent injuries, not as accidents, but as something that can be predictable and hopefully preventable.<\/p>\n
INJURY DEMOGRAPHICS<\/strong><\/p>\n The following graphs show a few demographics on how injuries affect different ethnicity, age, gender, and locations in Connecticut. In terms of ethnicity, people of white descent make up the majority of injury patients who are serviced at Connecticut\u2019s Children Medical Center, followed by people who did not give a specific ethnicity. Followed by those groups are Hispanics, Blacks, and then Asians.<\/p>\n\n\n