Injuries in children by NHS board and deprivation

There is considerable variation in rates between NHS Boards (table 5  &table 6). These data should be treated with caution, as ratios are based on small numbers and may vary significantly from year to year and between NHS Boards.  The risk of unintentional injury in childhood increases with increasing socio-economic deprivation. Figure 2 and table 7 shows the association between mortality from unintentional injury and deprivation for children under the age of 15 years during 2002-2006. Death rates from unintentional injury are more than three times as high for the most deprived children compared with their most affluent contemporaries. The standardised mortality ratio in the least deprived area (deprivation quintile 1) is 49.4 compared with 169.9 within the most deprived area (deprivation quintile 5). 

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A similar pattern can be seen in emergency admissions by deprivation quintile table 9 .