ABSTRACT
Injuries may be divided into two major categories: intentional and unintentional. Intentional injuries occur when the individual or individuals want to injure either someone else or themselves. Intentional injuries consist of all forms of violence including those related to assault, suicide, homicide, sexual situations, intimate partner situations, child mistreatment, youth violence, elder mistreatment, and bullying including electronic and/or social media aggression, especially in schools and school-related activities, etc. There will be a limited discussion in this area since an entire book will be written about the topic of violence and intentional injuries which are a major public health concern, with tens of thousands of deaths and millions of injuries. The injuries discussed in this chapter are mostly of the unintentional type. (See endnote 17, 29.)
