Cent Eur J Public Health 2017, 25(2):120-128 | DOI: 10.21101/cejph.a4477

Child Safety Reference Frameworks: a Policy Tool for Child Injury Prevention at the Sub-national Level

Beatrice Scholtes1,2, Peter Schröder-Bäck1,3, Morag Mackay4, Joanne Vincenten1, Helmut Brand1
1 Department of International Health, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, CAPHRI School of Public Health and Primary Care, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
2 Department of Public Health, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium
3 Faculty for Human and Health Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
4 Safe Kids Worldwide, Washington DC, USA

Objectives: The aim of this paper is to present the Child Safety Reference Frameworks (CSRF), a policy advice tool that places evidence-based child safety interventions, applicable at the sub-national level, into a framework resembling the Haddon Matrix.

Method: The CSRF is based on work done in previous EU funded projects, which we have adapted to the field of child safety. The CSRF were populated following a literature review.

Results: Four CSRF were developed for four domains of child safety: road, water and home safety, and intentional injury prevention.

Conclusion: The CSRF can be used as a reference, assessment and comparative tool by child safety practitioners and policy makers working at the sub-national level.

Keywords: child safety, injury prevention, health inequalities, sub-national, inter-sectoral action

Received: June 24, 2015; Revised: November 27, 2016; Accepted: November 27, 2016; Published: June 1, 2017  Show citation

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Scholtes B, Schröder-Bäck P, Mackay M, Vincenten J, Brand H. Child Safety Reference Frameworks: a Policy Tool for Child Injury Prevention at the Sub-national Level. Cent Eur J Public Health. 2017;25(2):120-128. doi: 10.21101/cejph.a4477. PubMed PMID: 28662322.
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