Legislation coverage for child injury prevention in China

Legislation coverage for child injury prevention in China

OBJECTIVE To examine the extent to which effective interventions to prevent unintentional child injury are reflected in the laws and regulations of China. METHODS We focused on the six common causes of fatal child injuries - drowning, road traffic injury, falls, poisoning, burns and suffocation. We investigated 27 interventions recommended by the United Nations Children's Fund, the World Heal...

Barriers and Enablers to Enacting Child and Youth Related Injury Prevention Legislation in Canada

Injury prevention policy is crucial for the safety of Canada's children; however legislation is not adopted uniformly across the country. This study aimed to identify key barriers and enablers to enacting injury prevention legislation. Purposive snowball sampling identified individuals involved in injury prevention throughout Canada. An online survey asked respondents to identify policies that ...

Child Nonintentional Injury Prevention

Child Injury Prevention: An Overlooked Challenge for Child Survival

Those interested in child survival frequently cite and follow the under-five mortality rate. While a useful measure, the under-five mortality rate lumps together neonatal and post-neonatal mortality with deaths in the 1-4 year period. Unfortunately, this hampers public health decision making about the most appropriate child survival strategies as children survive beyond their first year of life.

Injury prevention in child death review.