Empowering Parents to Prevent Unintentional Childhood Injuries

Abstract

On average, 33 children die each day in the United States— about 12 000 children a year— because of unintentional childhood injuries. Another 9 million children are treated in emergency departments for unintentional injuries each year. To address this issue, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control has launched a new initiative focused on parents: Protect the Ones You Love: Child Injuries Are Preventable. As trusted sources of health information, physicians and health care providers can use the initiative and the related ancillary materials to inform parents and caregivers about lifestyle changes that reduce the risk and potential harmful outcomes of an injury to a child or other family member.

Conceptualizing Organizational Domains of Community Empowerment through Empowerment Evaluation in Estonian Communities

“…Community empowerment approaches have been used successfully not only for tackling inequalities in health [9,10], but also for prevention of many health-related and social problems, including injury [11,12], cardiovascular disease [13,14], and drug and alcohol abuse [15], and for inducing social capital [16,17].…”