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- Mental health problems increase injury risk.
- Researchers studied many people in records.
- People had more self-harm injuries.
- People had more injuries from assault.
- There were more falls and traffic accidents.
- Head and brain injuries were common.
- Risk was not only from old injuries.
- Authors say prevention is needed now.
Difficult words
- injury — harm to the body from an accidentinjuries
- self-harm injury — harm a person causes to themselvesself-harm injuries
- assault — a violent attack by another person
- fall — when someone loses balance and dropsfalls
- traffic accident — a crash involving vehicles on the roadtraffic accidents
- prevention — actions to stop something bad from happening
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Discussion questions
- Have you ever had a fall or accident?
- What can people do to stop injuries?
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