INTENTIONAL

Injuries and
UNINTENTIONAL
injuries
 INTENTIONAL INJURIES

• Intentional Injuries are injuries resulting

from violence. It can be divided into two: self-
inflicted, when a person harms
himself/herself on purpose and assault, when
person/ persons harm another on purpose.
 UNINTENTIONAL INJURIES
• Unintentional injuries can be defined as events in which:
• The injury occurs in a short period of time - seconds or minutes,
• The harmful outcome was not sought, or
• The outcome was the result of one of the forms of physical
energy in the environment or normal body functions being
blocked by external means, e.g., drowning.
 ACTIVITY: NEWS BULLETIN

• Read the news headlines below then

classify them as to whether they refer to
intentional or unintentional injuries. Write
your answers in a table form on your
paper.
INTENTIONAL UNINTENTIONAL
 GUIDE QUESTIONS
• 1. Explain how you classified each news headline.
• 2. How did you distinguish between intentional and unintentional injuries?
• 3. Give 3 examples of intentional.
• 4. Give 3 examples of unintentional.