Home accident prevention activities.

General practitioners' beliefs about their role in the prevention and treatment of accidents involving children.

This questionnaire survey set out to determine the perceptions of family doctors in north Staffordshire regarding their role in the prevention and treatment of childhood accidents. Of 277 doctors sent questionnaires, 207 (75%) replied. Only 23% of respondents considered that they did enough child accident prevention work; lack of time was mentioned as a limiting factor by 66%. Child health surv...

Evaluation of the Latrobe Valley Better Health Injury Prevention Program.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the Latrobe Valley Better Health Injury Prevention Program, a regional community based intervention in south east Victoria, Australia. METHOD The evaluation design was quasiexperimental including pre-intervention and post-intervention observations in a predominately town dwelling population of approximately 76,000. There was no comparison community. Process measures incl...

Epidemiology and implications of ocular trauma admitted to hospital in Scotland.

OBJECTIVES To describe the current epidemiology of serious ocular trauma which necessitates admission to hospital so that health and safety strategies for the prevention of ocular injuries and their role within the national health strategy, The Health of the Nation, can be better informed. DESIGN A prospective observational study of all patients with ocular trauma admitted to hospital under t...

Injury surveillance in an accident and emergency department: a year in the life of CHIRPP.

BACKGROUND The design of childhood injury prevention programmes is hindered by a dearth of valid and reliable information on injury frequency, cause, and outcome. A number of local injury surveillance systems have been developed to address this issue. One example is CHIRPP (Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program), which has been imported into the accident and emergency depar...

Engineering aspects of home accident prevention.