Sentences with phrase «reduced child injuries»

For children living in households with mothers with low education there were reduced child injuries requiring medical treatment (MD − 0.61, 95 % CI − 0.07 to − 1.13; p = 0.03) and increased receptive vocabulary (MD 0.57, 95 % CI 0.06 to 1.08; p = 0.03).

Kitzman et al report that the replicated programme in Memphis, Tennessee reduced child injuries and ingestions, subsequent pregnancies, and pregnancy induced hypertension among families visited by nurses; it also improved the home environment.

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The innovative design keeps your child's hips safe and reduces the risk of pediatric hip injury.

In this way, it is my goal to reduce the risk of concussions and related head injuries to the athletes that we care most about — our children.

In addition to educating young athletes about both the importance of hydration and the dangers of heat - related illness, ensuring that they drink enough fluids, and taking precautions to reduce the risk of heat injury in children in hot and humid weather, you need to watch your child for symptoms of impending heat illness:

In addition to educating young athletes about both the importance of hydration and the dangers of heat - related illness, ensuring that they drink enough fluids, and taking precautions to reduce the risk of heat injury in children, especially when they are exercising in hot and humid weather, parents and coaches need to watch children for signs and symptoms of impending heat illness:

Purchasing the best and safest trampoline model on the market will allow you to reduce the possibility of injury to your children while providing the fun and exciting experience for families that trampolines have always represented.

LATCH (Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children) is a standardized system for car seat installation that stabilizes the seat and reduces the potential for head injury.

The University of Nebraska study found that the children of authoritative parents were more likely to eat healthier foods such as fruits and vegetables and make choices that reduced risk of injury, such as wearing bike helmets.

MomsTEAM's concussion expert, Dr. Bill Meehan, Director of the Sports Concussion Clinic at Children's Hospital Boston, and author of Kids, Sports, and Concussion, thinks one way that may reduce the risk of head injury is to strengthen the neck muscles so they better cushion against impact.

The use of a foot prop on rear - facing car seats can help reduce those injuries by reducing the transfer of crash energy to the child.

Conducted by Ron Prinz of the University of South Carolina, this first large - scale American trial of Triple P directly addressed, and affirmed, the success of the program in reducing substantiated child maltreatment, out - of - home placements of maltreated children, and maltreatment injuries.

For infants and toddlers, child restraints reduce fatal injuries by up to 71 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Safe Kids Connecticut is a multi-faceted organization that works to reduce death and injury rates of children through community education, public policy change, creating safe environments, and conducting research.

Child proofing a car is impossible; but by placing your baby in a car seat you are ensuring that their risks of death or injury are greatly reduced.

Booster seat use, compared with using seat belts alone, reduces the risk of serious injury by 45 % for children aged 4 - 8 years.

Shatterproof goggles and face shields can reduce the number of eye injuries in children playing in sports such as baseball, basketball and other sports

Studies show that with any type of booster, the risk for injury to children 4 — 8 years of age is reduced by 45 %.

Locks and latches for cupboards and cabinets, refrigerator latches, oven locks, stove knob covers, and stove guards are just a few of the safety devices you can install to reduce the risk of injury before your child is mobile.

The 2012 National Action Plan for Child Injury Prevention provides actions in surveillance, research, communication, education, health care, and public policy to guide efforts in saving lives by reducing injuries.

The mission of the Injury Prevention Center (IPC) at Connecticut Children's is to reduce unintentional injury and violence among Connecticut residents.

Crash reports evaluate the ability of the child seat to reduce the injury risk in conditions that simulates a car's interior environment and the forces encountered during a crash.

While some meta - analyses of home visiting programs suggest that many types of home visiting programs can make a difference in reducing adverse outcomes such as child maltreatment and childhood injuries, 14,15 meta - analyses can produce misleading results if there are insufficient numbers of trials of programs represented in the cross-classification of home visiting target populations, program models, and visitors» backgrounds.

«We wanted to take a fresh look at booster seats» effectiveness to reduce injury among this age group, because when we first evaluated the protective benefits of booster seats in 2002, most children using them were 4 and 5 years old,» explains lead researcher Kristy Arbogast, PhD, director of Engineering at CHOP's Center for Injury Research and Prevention.

Properly fitted helmets can reduce the risk of head injuries by at least 45 percent — yet less than half of children ages 14 and under usually wear a bike helmet.

Your child's doctor will also likely advise against rough or vigorous play to reduce the risk for further injuries for at least a 24 - hour period.

Swedish accident research has shown that rearward facing children's car seats reduce serious injuries by 92 %, while the forward - facing seats only reduce injury by 60 %.

It may seem like a lot to take in, but with a little planning and precaution, we can reduce the risk of injury of our children while they are riding safely in the back seat.

The studies have proved that children of ages 1 - 2 should be in a rear - facing position as long as possible because it will reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries in car crashes 5.3 times, which won't be the case with forward facing position.

The agenda must address universal health - care coverage, access and affordability; end preventable maternal, new - born and child deaths and malnutrition ensure the protection, promotion and support of exclusive breastfeeding for six months and continued breastfeeding with adequate complementary feeding for 2 years and beyond ensure the availability of essential medicines; realize women's reproductive health and rights; ensure immunization coverage; eradicate malaria and realize the vision of a future free of AIDS and tuberculosis; reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases, including mental illness, nervous system injuries and road accidents; and promote healthy behaviours, including those related to breastfeeding, water, sanitation and hygiene.

Be sure to use the top tether: It will limit the motion of the car seat and your child's head in a crash and reduce the risk of injury.

Studies show that access to paid sick days promote safer and healthier work environments by reducing the spread if illness and workplace injuries and it reduces health care costs and supports children and families by helping the parents fulfill their care - giving responsibilities.»

Use of the age - appropriate restraints such as a car safety seat or a booster seat greatly reduces the risk of serious injury and death to your children in a motor vehicle accident.»

There's solid evidence that these laws reduce unintentional firearm injuries and deaths among children.

Although the number of playground injuries is decreasingfrom 187,000 in 1992 to 98,000 in 1997Phelan hopes that prevention efforts aimed at middle - school - age children can reduce the number even further.

Using a rear - facing car seat until a child is age two reduces risk of serious injury, but close to one - quarter of parents report they turned the seat around before their child was even one year old, according to a new University of Michigan study.

Booster seats have been shown to reduce the risk of serious injury by 45 percent in children aged 4 - 8 when compared with seat belt use alone but there are reportedly lower rates of proper restraint use among older kids.

«Given the magnitude of safety risks and parental concerns, it is important to find evidence - based solutions that reduce the likelihood of injury to children and can provide parents with less reason for worry,» he said.

The strongest available evidence supports the conclusion that laws designed to keep guns out of the hands of children reduce firearm self - injuries, suicides and unintended injuries to children.

Pediatric intensive care units have reduced mortality rates for children with such life - threatening conditions as sepsis, cardiac arrest, and traumatic brain injury.

«Policies designed to reduce the number of household firearms, especially handguns, may more effectively reduce the number of gunshot injuries in children,» said Dr. Madenci.

To reduce the incidence of childhood injuries, an array of injury prevention outreach programs have been designed to educate children, parents and community members.

As the UK's oldest safety charity, with a mission to save lives and reduce injuries, RoSPA advocates that schools take an approach which ensures that children and staff are «as safe as necessary, not as safe as possible.»

Angry parents blamed him for the very serious injuries sustained by their children but had their children been wearing their safety belts, their injuries would have been very much reduced, as were the injuries of those children who did belt up.

Descriptions from the crash scene appear to confirm that the death and injury toll would have been significantly reduced if children were wearing seat belts.

This NPRM proposes rulemaking on these and other requirements to increase the correct use of child restraint anchorage systems and tether anchorages, and the correct use of child restraints, with the ultimate goal of reducing injuries to restrained children in motor vehicle crashes.

Restraint systems including seat belts, the LATCH (Lower Anchors and Top Tethers for Children) system and airbags help to reduce the risk of injury in a collision.

Harness - based child restraints reduce fatal injuries by 58 - 71 percent for infants (younger than 1) and by 54 - 59 percent for 1 - 4 year olds compared with no restraint.

Restraining children in rear seats instead of front seats reduces fatal injury risk by about three - quarters for children up to age 3, and almost half for children ages 4 to 8.

It calls for the Department of Transportation to issue regulations to reduce incidence of child injury and death occurring inside or outside of light motor vehicles.