Birutė Strukčinskienė, Sabine Distl, Sigitas Griškonis Abstract Injuries remain to be one of the leading causes of death and disability in any region of the world. International Safe Community Programme is most important programme for injury prevention and safety promotion in community. The aim of study was to introduce the concept of Safe Community as…
Sigitas Griškonis, Birutė Strukčinskienė, Juozas Raistenskis, Vaiva Strukčinskaitė, Ieva Griškonytė Abstract The survey on elderly people (65 plus) that have to be treated for a fall injury in Lithuania hospitals. In the survey 312 elderly participated. Chi-square test was used and the significance level p<0.05 was considered statistically significant. The study revealed that the majority…
Birutė Strukčinskienė Abstract Summary Every year in 27 EU countries from injury die approximately 250,000 inhabitants. About 1/5 of child injury occur in the school environment. Children spend the biggest part of their time in the school. It is of great importance to provide safe and healthy school environment. The task of this study was…
