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Item Restricted The socio-economic determinants of childhood injury(2007-10) Buenaventura, Clarissa V.; Campos, Ria F.Accidents are the major sources of lifetime incapacity and premature deaths of children ages 1-14. While the country is winning in its fight against communicable diseases by showing a decreasing rate of mortality due to pneumonia, diarrhea, nutritional deficiency, measles and TB of all forms in the past 30 years, the rate of mortality due to accidents has been constant and, in the turn of the century, increasing. This study aims to help in improving preventive actions against unintentional child injuries by identifying the socio-economic risk factors for injury. Socioeconomic data from the records of trauma patients in UP PGH who applied for medical social service in the year 2006 was analyzed using logistic regression. Results of the regression showed that children who are male, living with only one adult and have a younger, less educated mother are more at risk of getting injured. Paternal characteristics turned out to have an opposite sign than that of maternal characteristics implying that older and more educated fathers offer less preventive efforts for child injury.