Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention
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To measure the effect of the WHO Safe Communities model approach to increasing child restraint use in motor vehicles. ⋯ The Safe Communities approach was successful in promoting the use of child restraints in motor vehicles through a multifaceted intervention that included efforts in various community settings, instructional classes and child safety seat distribution.
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To increase the number and quality of injury prevention recommendations made by Washington State (USA) child death review teams. ⋯ Injury prevention recommendations are generated in the systematic local review of child deaths. This process can be analysed, measured, supported, and improved.
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This study describes road traffic injuries among school-aged children in Guangzhou, China, and examines the effect of road safety knowledge and risk behaviours on road traffic injuries. ⋯ Better road safety knowledge and the avoidance of walking or cycling-related risk behaviours are protective factors for road traffic injuries among Chinese school children. More injury prevention programmes are needed to improve road safety knowledge and reduce risk behaviours.
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Multicenter Study
Developing effective child death review: a study of 'early starter' child death overview panels in England.
This qualitative study of a small number of child death overview panels aimed to observe and describe their experience in implementing new child death review processes, and making prevention recommendations. ⋯ The results of this study have helped to inform the subsequent establishment of child death overview panels across England. To operate effectively, panels need a clear remit and purpose, robust structures and processes, and committed personnel. A multi-agency approach contributes to a broader understanding of and response to children's deaths.