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15 Unintentional Injuries
Pages 129-134

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From page 129...
... Of these five, drinking and driving, proper restraint, and compliance with speed limits reflect individual attitudes. Although law enforcement agencies can take measures to increase compliance with traffic rules, health promotion efforts in the community are necessary to bring about significant and long-lasting reductions in injury rates.
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From page 130...
... Manufacturer changes include brake enhancement, side impact protection, use of on-board electronics, improved vehicle stability, and automatic restraints. Laboratory testing and field experimentation on better restraint systems are occurring, which include "improved belt designs, passive belts, air bag applications, and electronic accident avoidance technology.n (~51 7)
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From page 131...
... More than half of the persons were under 25,8 and 82.4 percent of those drowned were male.9 To pursue the goal of no more than 1.5 drowning deaths per 100,000 people, Rivara encourages the use of multiple strategies and more studies; for example, "it is not known whether toddler and child swim classes are ~ positive or a negative risk factor for drowning." He also points out that "interventions for pool drownings may not be applicable to those occurring in natural bodies of water." (~334J DISABLING INJURIES Most injuries are nonfatal, according to Macdonald, but some severely disabling injuries are "perceived as worse than death." Of the eight 1990 objectives dealing with accident prevention and injury control, only one measures nonfatal injuries, and that is "based on unreliable data. Macdonald calls for the year 2000 objectives to measure the incidence of severe injuries, the prevalence of disability, and the rates of disability days.
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From page 132...
... Trietsch underscores the usefulness of interdisciplinary "teams" in the Texas effort to reduce traffic injury 132 Healthy People 2000: Citizens Chart the Course rates. For example, the Texas Department of Highways and Public Transportation provides funds directly to the Texas Department of Health for the promotion of safety belts, child safety seats, and DWI reductions.
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From page 133...
... One step in making reporting procedures more standard would be to have hospitals, emergency medical service units, trauma centers, and police reports record the same types of information with the same or similar coding schemes.
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From page 134...
... Carden, et al.; The Children's Hospital of Alabama 285 Sleet, David; San Diego State University 296 Gossett, Leo; Texas Department of Public Safety 317 Floberg, Jill; Olympia Physical Therapy Service 322 Macdonald, Steven; University of Washington 334 Rivara, Frederick; Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center (Seattle)
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