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ShareHead injury is a trauma to the head, that may or may not include injury to the brain.
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The incidence (number of new cases) of head injury is 300 per 100,000 per year (0.3% of the population), with a mortality of 25 per 100,000 in North America and 9 per 100,000 in Britain.
Head trauma is a common cause of childhood hospitalization.
Common causes of head injury are traffic accidents, home and occupational accidents, falls, and assaults.
For more information about the topic Head injury, read the full article at Wikipedia.org, or see the following related articles:
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