Child restraint safety practices among arab children in Israel.

Conclusions: The low rates of CRS use may explain to some degree the high rates of injury and mortality of Arab children in car crashes. These low rates indicate that previous interventions have not been successful in increasing restraint use in the Arab community in Israel and there is a need to plan targeted interventions specifically for this population. Supplemental materials are available for this article. Go to the publisher's online edition of Traffic Injury Prevention to view the supplemental file.
PMID: 23343029 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - February 4, 2013 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Baron-Epel O, Magid A, Bord S, Assi N, Klein M, Levi S Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research