The impact of child safety restraint legislation on child injuries in police-reported motor vehicle collisions in British Columbia: An interrupted time series analysis | Zendy

Jeffrey R. Brubacher | Zendy; Ediriweera Desapriya | Zendy; Shan Erdelyi | Zendy; Herbert Chan | Zendy

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The impact of child safety restraint legislation on child injuries in police-reported motor vehicle collisions in British Columbia: An interrupted time series analysis

Author(s) -

Jeffrey R. Brubacher,

Ediriweera Desapriya,

Shan Erdelyi,

Herbert Chan

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

paediatrics and child health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.55

H-Index - 43

eISSN - 1918-1485

pISSN - 1205-7088

DOI - 10.1093/pch/21.4.e27

Subject(s) - legislation , injury prevention , occupational safety and health , poison control , medicine , booster (rocketry) , suicide prevention , interrupted time series analysis , human factors and ergonomics , pediatrics , demography , medical emergency , law , engineering , political science , sociology , statistics , mathematics , pathology , aerospace engineering

Motor vehicle collisions (MVCs) remain a leading cause of death and serious injury in Canadian children. In July 2008, British Columbia introduced child safety seat legislation that aimed to reduce the number of children killed or injured in MVCs. This legislation upgraded previous child seat legislation (introduced in 1985) and affected children zero to three and those four to eight years of age. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of this legislation.

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