Research - safety promotion and injury prevention

Injuries continue to be a major problem in children, causing distress for children and families, utilising health resources, being a common reason for admission to hospital, and a common cause of death after the first year of life. Prevention efforts need to focus on a better understanding of the physical, social and emotional aspects of children's environments, safe communities, documenting the many contributing risk and protective factors, and mobilising individual and whole-of-community responses.

Title	Year	Description
Child unintentional poisoning interventions: Improving the uptake of safety practices	2003	Literature review and interviews to determine factors impacting on poison safety and management and to pilot test an innovative community intervention.
Safestart: Evaluation of Childhood Injury Prevention	2003-2004	Support and evaluation of three multi-strategy community child injury prevention projects implemented through local government.

Last Updated 23-Oct-2009. Authorised by: Frank Oberklaid. Enquiries: Penny Miller.