Injuries from motor vehicle collisions are the leading cause of death among Canadian children. Well-child visits are a good time for physicians to provide information to parents on proper installation and use of car seats. Appropriate use of car seats can re duce the risk of death or serious injury by 67%–71%. A guide based on best practices is shown in Appendix 1 (www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content /full...

BACKGROUND One of the major causes of death among children younger than 15 years is vehicular injury. Car safety seats protect children in a crash if they are used correctly. The objective of this study was to assess the level of parental knowledge and their attitudes regarding car safety seats. METHODS The survey was conducted in May and June 2007 at Bakirkoy Dr. Sadi Konuk Research-Training...

BACKGROUND Iran has one of the highest rates of road traffic crash death rates throughout the world and road traffic injuries are the leading cause of years of life lost in the country. Using child car safety seats is not mandatory by law in Iran. The purpose of this research was to determine the parental willingness to pay (WTP) for child restraints in Mashad, the second most populated city in...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the knowledge, attitudes, and intended behaviors about use of child safety seats among parents of newborns and explore expectant mothers' views and decisions regarding child safety seats use. METHODS A cross-sectional survey and semi-structured interview were conducted in the maternity departments of two hospitals in China. Parents of newborns were recruited after del...

All nine PFRs studied were detected in house and car dust from the Netherlands with the exception of tris(butyl) phosphate (TNBP) and tris(isobutyl) phosphate (TIBP) in car dust. Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate (TBOEP, median 22 μg g(-1)) was dominant in house dust collected around and on electronics followed by tris(2-chloroisopropyl) phosphate (TCIPP, median 1.3 μg g(-1)), tris(2-chloroethyl) p...

The safety and ergonomic compatibility are the most important parts for designing child car seats. Since the children, especially the infants, cannot objectively express their aptitudes of safety, comfort and opinions very well, they cannot be suitable subjects for ergonomic design experiments. Applying computers to simulate human motions for solving ergonomic design problems has been explored ...

CONTEXT The US Federal Aviation Administration is planning a new regulation requiring children younger than 2 years to ride in approved child-restraint seats on airplanes. OBJECTIVES To estimate the annual number of child air crash deaths that might be prevented by the proposed regulation, the threshold proportion of families switching from air to car travel above which the risks of the polic...