Childhood injury prevention: time for tougher measures.

IB Pless - CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association journal, 1996 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The publication in this issue of an article describing the fatal strangulation of two children on
clothing drawstrings (see pages 1417 to 1419) coincides with National Child Day. This …

Strangulation in childhood: epidemiology and clinical course

KW Feldman, RJ Simms - Pediatrics, 1980 - publications.aap.org
A review of 233 cases of childhood strangulation was made to determine injury
epidemiology. Consistent patterns of injury were observed. Crib and playground equipment …

Injury prevention in the UK—the European dimension

J Sibert, D Stone - Injury Prevention, 1998 - injuryprevention.bmj.com
The European Union (EU) plays an increasingly important part in the everyday lives of
people in all its 15 member states. In the UK, we are beginning to realise that what happens …

Childhood injuries.

KC Finkel - CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association journal, 1992 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
D r. Amir Shanon and col-leagues, in their article" Nonfatal childhood in-juries: a survey at
the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario"(Can Med Assoc J 1992; 146: 361-365), remind …

Current controversies in child accident prevention. An analysis of some areas of dispute in the prevention of child trauma.

JH Pearn - Australian and New Zealand journal of medicine, 1985 - europepmc.org
The rate of serious child trauma has not been significantly reduced in the last two decades.
During this time, both infant mortality rates and the total child death rate have fallen by 30 …

[PDF][PDF] Three basic convictions: a recipe for preventing child injuries

IB Pless - Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2009 - SciELO Public Health
This paper represents a personal reflection on what is needed worldwide to prevent child
injuries. It repeats messages that have been frequently delivered in the past. The main …

International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention.

FP Rivara - Injury prevention, 1995 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Child health providers have always been leaders in preven-tive medicine. The field of injury
prevention and control is no exception. Hugh Jackson in the United Kingdom, Ragnar …

Action on injury: setting the agenda for children and young people in the UK

B Pless - Injury prevention, 1998 - injuryprevention.bmj.com
This is truly an historic occasion. This supplement and the conference which launches it
could, and should, prove pivotal in the history of injury prevention in the UK. Some may think …

Fatal asphyxiations in children involving drawstrings on clothing.

J Petruk, E Shields, GE Cummings… - CMAJ: Canadian …, 1996 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Injuries account for more deaths and hospital admissions among children and adolescents
than all diseases combined. The authors report two deaths by asphyxiation that resulted …

Children's injuries: a global problem

G Hughes - Emergency Medicine Journal, 2009 - emj.bmj.com
The United Nations Children's Fund, universally known as UNICEF, published the world
report on child injury prevention1 in December, a comprehensive 232-page document that is …