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We examined fatal and nonfatal unintentional injuries, injuries intentionally inflicted by other (i.e., assaults and homicides) among children ages 0\u201319, and intentionally self-inflicted injuries (i.e., self-harm and suicides) among children ages 10\u201319. We accessed deaths (1999\u20132015) and visits to emergency departments (2001\u20132015) for these age groups through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s (CDC) Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS), and examined trends and differences by age, sex, race\/ethnicity, rural\/urban status, and injury mechanism. Almost 13,000 children and adolescents age 0\u201319 years died in 2015 from injury and violence compared to over 17,000 in 1999. While the overall number of deaths has decreased over time, there were increases in death rates among certain age groups for some categories of unintentional injury and for suicides. The leading causes of injury varied by age group. Our results indicate that efforts to reduce injuries to children and adolescents should consider cause, intent, age, sex, race, and regional factors to assure that prevention resources are directed at those at greatest risk.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph15040616","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,3,29]],"date-time":"2018-03-29T05:26:37Z","timestamp":1522301197000},"page":"616","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":58,"title":["The Epidemiology of Unintentional and Violence-Related Injury Morbidity and Mortality among Children and Adolescents in the United States"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Michael","family":"Ballesteros","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Analysis, Research and Practice Integration, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Dionne","family":"Williams","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Analysis, Research and Practice Integration, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Karin","family":"Mack","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Analysis, Research and Practice Integration, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Thomas","family":"Simon","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6165-3289","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"David","family":"Sleet","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Bizzell Group, LLC, Lanham, MD 20706, USA"},{"name":"Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,3,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2017, August 09). 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