- Protect the Ones You Love: Child Injuries Are Preventable. This is a new initiative to raise parents’ awareness about the leading causes of child injury and how they can be prevented. As part of the initiative, the Injury Center has developed a number of resources that can be used to help parents to keep their children injury-free, including fact sheets, podcasts, e-cards, and media and event planning guides. Find these and other tools, all available free of charge, at http://www.cdc.gov/safechild/.
- CDC Childhood Injury Report: Patterns of Unintentional Injuries among 0-19 Year olds in the United States, 2000 – 2006. This data report provides an overview of unintentional injuries related to drowning, falls, fires or burns, transportation, poisoning, and suffocation, among others, during the period 2000 to 2006. Results are presented by age group and sex, as well as the geographic distribution of injury death rates by state. Read or download a copy of the report at http://www.cdc.gov/safechild/Child_Injury_Data.htm.
- Child Injury Prevention Video. On December 11, 2008, the Injury Center brought together a network of professionals to look at how policy, communications/media outreach, and national and local programs can be used to empower parents in their efforts to protect children. Watch a video of the highlights of the meeting at http://www.cdc.gov/SafeChild/about.htm.
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WHO and UNICEF launch the World report on child injury prevention:
Today WHO and UNICEF release the first World report on child injury
prevention. The report, developed with the support of nearly 200 injury
prevention experts from around the world, is intended to draw attention
to child unintentional injuries, a significant but long neglected public
health and development concern.
Injuries - from road traffic crashes, drowning, falls, burns, poisoning
and other causes - kill around 830 000 children every year. They are the
leading cause of death for children after the age of nine years. Every
year tens of millions of children worldwide are taken to hospitals with
injuries that may leave them with lifelong disabilities.
Around 95% of child injuries occur in low- and middle-income countries.
Children in poorer communities in all countries are at increased risk of
injury as they are more likely to be exposed to hazardous environments
and are less likely to benefit from prevention programmes. In addition
they often lack access to good quality trauma care and rehabilitation
services.
The World report on child injury prevention provides the first
comprehensive global assessment of childhood unintentional injuries and
prescribes measures for how they can be prevented. These measures
include laws on child-appropriate seatbelts and helmets; hot tap water
temperature regulations; child-resistant closures on medicine bottles,
lighters and household product containers; separate traffic lanes for
motorcycles or bicycles; draining unnecessary water from baths and
buckets; redesigning nursery furniture, toys and playground equipment;
and strengthening emergency medical care and rehabilitation services.
The report calls for inclusion of injury prevention in child health
programmes and concludes that at least 1000 children*s lives could be
saved every day if proven prevention measures were adopted everywhere.
RELATED LINKS:
World report on child injury prevention:
www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/child/injury/world_report/
en/
Tips for organizers in communities across the world:
www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/child/injury/world_report/
tips/en/index.html
Press Release:
www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2008/pr46/en/index.html
[The CDC released a report today on U.S. data on childhood injuries, CDC
Childhood Injury Report: Patterns of Unintentional Injuries among 0-19
Year olds in the United States, 2000 - 2006 (available at
http://www.cdc.gov/safechild/images/CDC-ChildhoodInjury.pdf) and
launched the Protect the Ones You Love: Child Injuries Are Preventable
initiative, in which the AAP is a participating organization (see
www.cdc.gov/safechild).]
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