Home safety education and provision of safety equipment for injury prevention

TY - JOUR

T1 - Home safety education and provision of safety equipment for injury prevention

AU - Kendrick, Denise

AU - Young, Ben

AU - Mason-Jones, Amanda J

AU - Ilyas, Nohaid

AU - Achana, Felix A

AU - Cooper, Nicola J

AU - Hubbard, Stephanie J

AU - Sutton, Alex J

AU - Smith, Sherie

AU - Wynn, Persephone

AU - Mulvaney, Caroline

AU - Watson, Michael C

AU - Coupland, Carol

PY - 2012

Y1 - 2012

N2 - In industrialised countries injuries (including burns, poisoning or drowning) are the leading cause of childhood death and steep social gradients exist in child injury mortality and morbidity. The majority of injuries in pre-school children occur at home but there is little meta-analytic evidence that child home safety interventions reduce injury rates or improve a range of safety practices, and little evidence on their effect by social group.

AB - In industrialised countries injuries (including burns, poisoning or drowning) are the leading cause of childhood death and steep social gradients exist in child injury mortality and morbidity. The majority of injuries in pre-school children occur at home but there is little meta-analytic evidence that child home safety interventions reduce injury rates or improve a range of safety practices, and little evidence on their effect by social group.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84873025418&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1002/14651858.CD005014.pub3

DO - 10.1002/14651858.CD005014.pub3

M3 - Article

C2 - 22972081

SN - 1469-493X

VL - 9

SP - CD005014

JO - Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

JF - Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

ER -