Refugee Children: Children and Youth

refugee children: Three-quarters are unintentional, so these are accidents that happen, and about 25 per cent are intentional or assault, said senior author Dr, according to CTV. Astrid Guttmann, a pediatrician at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. Their study, published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, found there were 355 firearm injuries on average each year among children and youth, with about 23 to 25 -- or seven per cent -- resulting in death. When the researchers looked at provincial hospital emergency room records for gun-related injuries, they found Canadian-born youth, particularly males, had the highest rates of unintentional firearm injury -- 12 per 100,000 people versus about seven per 100,000 for immigrant males. Refugee children and youth were 1.4 times more likely to be shot than Canadian-born residents of the same age, while immigrant children and youth from Africa were almost three times as likely and those from Central America almost four times as likely to be a victim of a firearm assault, the study found. But when it came to firearm injuries due to assault, immigrants and refugees were at much higher risk than their non-immigrant counterparts. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.