Safe At Home - the National Home Safety Equipment Scheme

Safe European home.

B ack in the days when there were still enough faculty positions for postdocs to go to, I had a romantic (never realized) dream to take a detour via Africa or Central America or some remote island paradise, before returning to Europe to set up my laboratory. Then as now, the science being done in developing countries was mainly tied to the specific problems of those countries, whether in regard...

Are home births safe?

Safe at home. Feds, states take steps to prevent home-care crime.

In Brunswick County, N.C., police charged former home health provider Lisa Veronica McGee McClain, 43, with stealing a 74-year-old patient's personal information. McClain, employed by a local home-care agency, allegedly removed $260,000 from the patient's bank account between 2009 and 2011. She was arrested last year in Washington on a warrant for the thefts, but was erroneously released, leavi...

Making Home Safe for Children

Trauma is an important cause of mortality and morbidity in children. A significant number of injuries occur in home environment [1]. This subject has been studied extensively in western countries and huge data is generated. Based upon the findings many policy decisions have been taken in order to minimize the potential threats at home. In addition many educational activities are conducted for p...

Commentaries on 'Home safety education and provision of safety equipment for injury prevention'.

BACKGROUND In industrialised countries injuries (including burns, poisoning or drowning) are the leading cause of childhood death and steep social gradients exist in child injury mortality and morbidity. The majority of injuries in pre-school children occur at home but there is little meta-analytic evidence that child home safety interventions reduce injury rates or improve a range of safety pr...