PLoS medicine
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Over a million adolescents die globally each year from preventable or treatable causes, with injuries (intentional and unintentional) being the leading cause of these deaths. To inform strategies to prevent these injuries, we aimed to assess psychosocial factors associated with serious injury occurrence, type, and mechanism in adolescents. ⋯ We observed strong associations between serious injury and psychosocial factors, but we note the relationships are likely to be complex and our findings do not inform causality. Nevertheless, our findings suggest that multifactorial programmes to target psychosocial factors might reduce the number of serious injuries in adolescents, in particular programmes concentrating on reducing bullying and drug use and improving mental health.
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Beryne Odeny discusses strategies to improve equity in health care and health research.
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003323.].
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002410.].
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Caitlin Moyer discusses PLOS Medicine's Special Issue on Global Child and Adolescent Health.