PerspectiveChild Injury Control: Trends, Themes, and Controversies
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Road Traffic Injuries
Road traffic injuries are a leading cause of child injury death in the United States and abroad. In low- and middle-income countries, many road traffic injury deaths are among vulnerable road users (pedestrians and cyclists), while in the United States, most fatalities involve motor vehicle occupants.19 In the last decade, researchers have demonstrated the benefit of using child safety seats and booster seats for older children.20 The evolution of child restraint best practices has fostered
Themes and Controversies
Over a number of these injury mechanisms and in various contexts, there are identifiable themes and unresolved controversies in the injury control community. Perhaps the most basic is, which injuries do we really want to prevent? Clearly, some bumps, bruises, and scrapes are part of being an active child.98 No one argues that children's activity should be curtailed or their experience of the environment restricted in order to prevent these minor injuries. Unfortunately, in many cases, these
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