Accidents among younger school-age children and their parents' health literacy OBJECTIVES: Determine the frequency of injuries in younger school-age children. Research the correlation between the parents' health literacy and the frequency of their children's injuries, parents’ level of education and their self-estimated socioeconomic status. STUDY TYPE: Cross-sectional study. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS: The study included 503 parents of younger school-aged children from the Virovitica-Podravina County area. It was conducted through an anonymous survey questionnaire which was independently filled out by the participants during the months of February and March 2019. The survey included questions about their health literacy, their theoretical and practical knowledge of primary, secondary and tertiary injury prevention and finally their socioeconomic status. RESULTS: The ratio of participants whose children, the observed child and other children, had none, one or two and more injuries is almost the same. The most common type of injury are falls, 78,6%. Parents who are of adequate health literacy are also often of a higher level of education and their economic status is better than average. Lower health literacy is significantly more common in villages, 85,0% and adequate health literacy is significantly more common in towns, 63,3%. Children whose parents are of lower health literacy, get injured more often and are hospitalized more often. CONCLUSION: Injuries among younger school-aged children are common in the observed population. There is no statistically significant difference in the ratio of injuries regarding their parents’ health literacy, although the results show slightly higher incidence of injuries among children of lower health literate parents. They are more prone to accidents and get hospitalized more often.