Preventing child unintentional injury deaths: prioritising the response to the New Zealand Child and Adolescent Injury Report Card.

Conclusions: A number of evidence-based injury prevention policy and legislative actions are available that could target areas of greatest childhood injury mortality in NZ. Implications: A set of injury prevention policy and legislation priorities are presented which, if implemented, would result in a significant reduction in the injury mortality and morbidity rates of NZ children. PMID: 24090331 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24090331?dopt=Abstract

Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health - October 1, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Shepherd M, Kool B, Ameratunga S, Bland V, Hassall I, Chambers J, Carter W, Dalziel S Tags: Aust N Z J Public Health Source Type: research

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