Accidents And The Health Of Primary School Pupils

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1    BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Accidents are commonly regarded as intrinsically different from causal sequences that lead to disease and to any other event. As a result accident remains the only major source of morbidity and mortality which many continue to view in extra-rational terms such as ‘luck’, ‘chance’ and ‘act of God’. If accidents are of such unique nature that its causation defies human understanding, control and prediction, it might be argued that it should be analysed not only by scientists and theologians and philosophers but by astrologers and soothsa…