Injury Prevention Resources

 

General Injury Prevention

American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statements. AAP’s Committee on Injury, Violence, and Poison Prevention has Policy Statements on topics covering various intentional and unintentional injuries. http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/collection/committee_on_injury_violence_and_poison_prevention.

Injury Prevention Center at Arkansas Children’s Hospital has information on motor vehicle safety, pedestrian safety, home safety, bicycle safety, and ATV safety. 1-866-611-3445. www.archildrens.org/injury_prevention

Safe Kids Worldwide has information on car safety, fire safety, pedestrian safety, railroad safety, toy safety, and water safety. www.safekids.org

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a new website titled “Protect the Ones You Love” with E-cards, fact sheets, videos on several injury topics: http://www.cdc.gov/SafeChild/

Injury Free Coalition for Kids:   http://www.injuryfree.org/index.cfm Information on playground safety.National Safety Council:  http://www.nsc.org/

Motor Vehicle Safety

Ages 0-14

To locate child-fitting stations in Arkansas and learn more about traffic safety contact the Injury Prevention Center at 1-866-611-3445.

Play It Safe: My Traffic Safety Fun Site is an interactive educational site for children. 

Teen Driving

Contact the Injury Prevention Center at 1-866-611-3445

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has resources on teen driving for teens and parents, http://www.chop.edu/consumer/jsp/division/generic.jsp?id=84822.

Adult Drivers

The American Medical Association has a publication, Physicians Guide to Assessing and Counseling Older Adult Drivers, available at  www.ama-assn.org/go/olderdrivers.

AARP Driver Safety Education Classes  Insert address to find a class in your area

ALL TERRAIN VEHICLE (ATV) SAFETY

Classes on ATV safety are offered by the 4-H program of the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service.  Classes are offered throughout the state, contact your local extension office for more information.  4-H ATV Safety Training. There are instructors throughout the state. You can look up an instructor closes to you at http://www.kidsarus.org/kids_go4it/safety/ATV/instructors.htm
or by calling Mike Klumpp at 501-671-2105

FIRE AND BURN SAFETY

The National Fire Protection Association is the world's leading advocate of fire prevention and an authoritative source on public safety, NFPA develops, publishes, and disseminates more than 300 consensus codes and standards intended to minimize the possibility and effects of fire and other risks
Surviving Fire  provides a first person perspective to survival similar to an educational role playing game. You are presented with a scenario and circumstances, and given a set of choices. Incorrect responses provide feedback, proper answers allow you to move to your predefined meeting spot.

Get on Board with Child Safety:  http://www.getonboardwithsafety.com/home_safety/safety_tips/fire-burns.aspx

Home Safety

Home Safety Council:  http://www.homesafetycouncil.org/index.aspx

Farm Safety

Visit http://www.fs4jk.org/services.html for downloadable farm safety fact sheets. 

Arkansas Poison Control Centers, emergency number 1-800-222-1222 to order stickers with phone number contact 501-686-5540.

CHILD SAFETY WITH  PETS

To help prevent children from being bitten by dogs, basic safety tips can be found at ;  http://www.cdc.gov/HomeandRecreationalSafety/Dog-Bites/biteprevention.html.

Safety Around Dogs   The American Kennel Club’s Safety Education Program for Children

JOURNAL ARTICLES   

Young, Rodney, John Boltri. "How do Family Physicians Provide Anticipatory Guidance during Well-Child Visits?." The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Vol. 18 No. 5September-October 2005 440-444. http://www.jabfp.org

Chen, Jieru, Marcie-jo Kresnow, Thomas R. Simon and Ann Dellinger. "Injury-Prevention Counseling and Behavior Among US Children: Results From the Second Injury Control and Risk Survey." PEDIATRICS 2007;119;e958-e9659 http://www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/119/4/e958

Schnitzer, PH.D, Patricia G.. "Prevention of Unintentional Childhood Injuries." American Family Physician 2006;74:1864-9, 18709 www.aafp.org

Gielen, Andrea Carlson, ScD, ScM, Modena E. H. Wilson, MD, MPH; Eileen M. McDonald, MS; Janet R. Serwint, MD; John s. Andrews, MD; Wei-Ting Hwang, BS; Mei-Cheng Wang, PhD. "Randomized Trial of Enhanced Anticipatory Guidance for Injury Prevention." Arch Pediatric Adolescent Medicine 2001; 155:42-499 www.archpediatrics.com