{"title":"Unintentional injuries and their prevention","authors":"D. Kendrick","doi":"10.1093/MED/9780198788850.003.0014","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This chapter quantifies the burden of childhood injuries; describes risk factors for child injury, levels and approaches to injury prevention, and recommendations for effective behaviour change; summarizes evidence for preventing child injuries at home and on the roads; discusses putting injury prevention into practice for practitioners and commissioners; makes recommendations for the injury prevention content of the Healthy Child Programme; and provides a resource list for practitioners, parents, and commissioners.","PeriodicalId":19711,"journal":{"name":"Oxford Medicine Online","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Oxford Medicine Online","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/MED/9780198788850.003.0014","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This chapter quantifies the burden of childhood injuries; describes risk factors for child injury, levels and approaches to injury prevention, and recommendations for effective behaviour change; summarizes evidence for preventing child injuries at home and on the roads; discusses putting injury prevention into practice for practitioners and commissioners; makes recommendations for the injury prevention content of the Healthy Child Programme; and provides a resource list for practitioners, parents, and commissioners.