Bringing Health Care & Child Care Together
| Alert: Kids Sleep Through Fire Alarms. "Kids spend 30% of the night in extremely deep sleep. They’re difficult to wake up, or are so disoriented they may hide or be unable to leave the house in case of fire” | ||
| An increased number of children are suffering from heat injuries after being left alone in hot cars. | HTML | |
| Children can drown quickly and silently in only an inch or two of water. This article offers several tips on water safety. | ||
| Children Should Wear Helmets While Ice-Skating: A Comparison of Skating-Related Injuries | HTML | |
| Consumer Product Safety Warns Parents About Choking Hazards to Young Children; Announces New Recall of Toys Posing Choking Hazards; Offers Educational Posters for Download | HTML | |
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CPSC Provides
Up-to-Date Information on Child Drowning Data and Prevention The Summer 2004 CPSC Safety Review issue includes the new information on child drowning: CPSC's strategic goals on drowning prevention; data on near-drowning injuries related to swimming pools (1999-2001); swimming pool safety recommendations; proposed federal mandatory rule for new, safer, baby bath seats; data on suction drain entrapments and spas and hot tub drowning; and a brief report on CPSC's drowning prevention actions for the last 10 years. |
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Drowning Fight
Making Strides Drowning remains the leading cause of unintentional death for Arizona children 4 and younger. And Arizona's rate of unintentional drowning deaths is more than twice that of the country as a whole. |
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| Federal Government Warns of “Hidden Hazard” to Young Children - Old Window Coverings Pose Strangulation Risk | HTML | |
| Is Your Deck Hazardous to Your Health? | HTML | |
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Motor Vehicle
Occupant Safety in a Rural State This article describes the results of an annual observational survey of child passenger and driver occupant restraint usage in Iowa; compares rates in rural and urban locations; and addresses the child’s location in the vehicle (front seat versus rear seat). |
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| Trampoline sales have increased, but deaths and neck injuries resulting in paraplegia have not | HTML |