Preventing children's accidents on a societal level
Part 1 : Trends in consumer issues and consumers' attitude/behavior
Chapter 2 : [Feature] Toward the prevention of children's accidents
Section 1 : Preventing children's accidents on a societal level
"Accidents" are in top 4 leading causes of death among children.
- In 2016, "accidents" took lives of 292 children aged 14 and under.
- The number of children's death caused by "accidents (excluding transport accidents and exposure to forces of nature)" has significantly reduced in a long term, and it became less than one tenth in the 35 years from 1980 to 2015.
Approx. 90% of deaths among age 0 is caused by "suffocation," and nearly half of deaths among ages 1 & over are caused by "drowning."
- Looking at the breakdown of the causes of children's death by "accidents (excluding transport accidents and exposure to forces of nature)," approx. 90% of death among those in the "age 0" group are caused by suffocation.
- "Drowning" caused 45.6% of death among children in the "ages 1 to 4" group, 52.9% among "ages 5 to 9" group, and 52.6% among "ages 10 to 14" group, and it accounts for nearly half of death among children ages 1 & over.