Emily Broadis Kirsty Munro Peter Raine

To design an effective burns prevention strategy it is important to define clearly thesocial, cultural and economic factors, which contribute to injury causation 1,2,3,4 Training of a nurse indata collection Commenced July 2009 Continually updatedand reviewedReferences: 1 Atiyeh BS, Costagliola M, Hayek SN: Burn prevention mechanisms and outcomes: Pitfalls, failures and successes. Burns 2009; 35:181-93, 2 Tse T, Poon CH, Tse KH, et al:Paediatric burn prevention: an epidemiological approach. Burns 2006; 32:229-34, 3 Werneck GL, Reichenheim ME: Paediatric burns and associated risk factors in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Burns 1997; 23:478-83, 4 Haberal M, Ucar N, Bilgin N: Epidemiological survey of burns treated in Turkey and desirable burn-prevention strategies. Burns 1995; 21:601-6