Park Min-hyang
(Chungbuk Health & Science University Cheongju Republic of Korea)
Han Heon-seok
(Chungbuk National University Cheongju Republic of Korea)
This study was performed in order to practically help children and provide basic data for developing program for effective preventive education against safety accidents by seeking strategy that can prevent accident through checking with current condition of safety accidents of children of our country.
Safety accidents are the important factors for globally causing deaths and disorders of children and juveniles [and safety accidents in our country lately become serious problems that threaten the right to life of children. 1,200 children of our country annually die of traffic accident and about 2,954,00 children visit hospitals for treatment due to accidents and loss incurred by safety accident amounts 2 trillion Won. In United States, 20,600,000 children meet with accidents each year, and loss is assumed to be 3,470,000,000 dollars of cost con-sumed every year coming from safety accidents of children. In this light, children’s safety accident is a serious problem that threaten children’s health and existence and is a task of policy that should be paid attention to for protecting children’s right, and in addition, as social loss of cost as well as unhappiness of individual child and family is bigger than that of adults, priority order needs to be put for prevention of accident. First ranker of cause of child’s death under 14 is accident which occupies 29% of total cause of death, and especially children of 5-10 years pertaining to elementary school children showed higher ratio of deaths of safety accident that that under 5 years. In addition, number of child victims under 14 years dying of safety accidents is decreasing, but number of children who get injured or wounded appears to be increasing every year, which imminently needs way of coun-termeasures for preventing children’s safety accidents. Human factor related to arising of children’s accident are classified into variable factors of demographic background, that is, age, gender, condition of family, economic level[10] and individual variable factors including psychological factors like characteristic of personal character, psychological condition or social relationship and educational factors like shortage of knowledge on accidents or neglectful behavior and factors(age, academic career, parents’ knowledge on safety, practice of safety, etc.) from parents who take care of children .
According to data collected from Consumer Injury Surveillance System(CISS) of Woori Won, number of chil-dren’s safety accidents under 14 years 20,732 in 2011, 22,907 in 2012 and 24, 312 in 2013, which shows contin-uous increase every year and the ratio that occupies more than 1 third of total danger information.
In order to prevent various kinds of safety accidents threatening our lives and to affirmatively fixate culture of safety and health for our society, all people should be equipped with correct attitude toward safety, and especial-ly, habituating and acting out are very important through systematically educating basic knowledge and values and attitudes. Therefore, related factors for accident occurrence should be removed with prior prediction of possi-ble occurrence of accident, and condition should be minimized from deterioration at occurrence of accident.