Accidents: Prevention is Feasible

Prevention of pedestrian accidents.

Child pedestrian accidents are the most common road traffic accident resulting in injury. Much of the existing work on road traffic accidents is based on analysing clusters of accidents despite evidence that child pedestrian accidents tend to be more dispersed than this. This paper analyses pedestrian accidents in 573 children aged 0-11 years by a locally derived deprivation score for the years...

Education is the key to the prevention of lawnmower accidents.

prevention of work accidents

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Parameter setting is feasible

In the first few years of life, a child's language undergoes tremendous changes. While it is a primary task for the student of language acquisition to document these changes, a mere description of child language, however accurate or insightful, cannot be regarded as adequate. A complete theory of language acquisition must also include a detailed account of how these changes take place, that is,...

Childhood accidents: epidemiology, trends, and prevention.

Accidents are the most common cause of death in children over one year of age. Prevention remains a high priority. We have reviewed the current epidemiology of childhood accidents and their prevention, and made recommendations for the future. In 1992, 559 children died in United Kingdom as a result of an accidents--240 from road traffic accidents and 100 from burns and scalds. Every year 50 chi...