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KMID : 0379319830080010012
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Korean Journal of Rural Medicine
1983 Volume.8 No. 1 p.12 ~ p.18
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A Study on Accident of the Residents in Rural Area
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Park Jong-Woo
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Abstract
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This study was carried out in identify the accidents of the residents in the rural community for a year from January to December in 1980 in the area of Bugae Myun, Gunwee Gun, Kyungpook province in Korea.
The annual incidence was 3.9% and there was significant difference between sexes (p 0.01) ; 5.5% in male, 2.3% in female. The age group of .50-59 showed the highest incidence as 5.7%.
In summer the incidence was the highest as 37.5% and in winter, the lowest as 18.7%
Farming tool was the most frequent cause of accident as 44.3% and followed by insecticide and bite of snake and dog, etc.
Hands and fingers were the most frequent injured parts as 33.0% and upper extremities (40.3 %) were twice as high as the lower ones (20.5%).
By kinds of injuries, laceration was highest as 33.0% and followed by contusion (24.4%) and abrasion (15.9%).
Average duration of treatment was 6.1 days and most of the cases (85.2 %o) were within 10 days.
Average duration of labor loss was 8 days and 84.6 % of the total were less than 10 days.
Twenty-six cases had some parts of their bodies lost due to accidents and five cases died from drowning and poisoning.
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