Child passenger safety: protecting your patients on every trip

Child passenger safety behaviors in Latino communities.

Booster seats protect child occupants between 4 and 8 years of age. The objective of this study was to determine barriers and facilitators for booster seat use among Latino families. We conducted one-to-one elicitation interviews with 56 mothers and 35 fathers of booster-eligible Latino children in an urban county and a rural county in Washington State. Half of the parents did not consistently ...

National Child Passenger Safety Week — September 14–20, 2014

Analysis of Airline Passenger Trip Delays

The purpose of the Air Transportation System (ATS) is to provide safe and efficient transportation of passengers and cargo. The on-time performance of the ATS is measured by flight-based metrics such as flight delays and flight cancellations. Researchers have shown that flight-based metrics do not accurately reflect the passenger trip experience, and especially underestimate the impacts of canc...

National Child Passenger Safety Week — September 15–21, 2013

Assessing community child passenger safety efforts in three Northwest Tribes.

OBJECTIVE To identify strengths and weaknesses in community based child passenger safety programs by developing a scoring instrument and conducting observations of child restraint use in three Native American communities. SETTING The three communities are autonomous Tribal reservations in the Pacific Northwest. Their per capita incomes and rates of unemployment are comparable. METHODS In ea...