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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"child safety"”.
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The influence of child safety warning signs on vehicle speeds
1 PDF file (ix, 117 pages)
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Child safety in day care centres within the Western Cape
The aim of the study is to explore aspects of child safety in registered day care centres situated in a lower socio-economic area of the Cape Town Metropole. This can be achieved by: a) describing the physical environment in day care centres b) assessing the infrastructure of day care centres to …
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Developing Guidelines for Designing Child Safety Printed Educational Materials: A User-Centered Approach
… of unintentional injury-related death among children ages 14 and under and of these children who were fatally injured more that 60 % were not using safety restraints at the time of the collision. Children who are too large for child safety seats are often restrained improperly or not at all. …
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The Canadian Child Safety Report Card - A Comparison of Injury Prevention Practices Across Provinces
… number of health-based indicators. However, few child health report cards discuss implications for primary prevention policy or practice. Methods The Canadian Child Safety Report Card was developed in three studies using data from the Discharge Abstract Database and provincial coronial data. …
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CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION TRAINING: INTRODUCING A TRAIN-THE-TEACHER MANUAL FOR CHILD SAFETY AWARENESS
… In order for the San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center community education department to extend the outreach of the Child Safety Awareness (CSA) curriculum, a training manual was created for San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) K- 5th grade teachers. This paper …
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Evaluating an Actively Caring for KIDS Process: A Behavioral-Community Program to Reduce Child Safety-Seat Misinformation and Misuse
… associates to act as behavior-change agents for child passenger safety, was implemented at a nationwide-chain discount store and evaluated with an interrupted time series design and a similar control site for comparison. Key components of the KIDS Process included a) training of sales associates …
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The process of the impact of differential response on child maltreatment recurrence
Differential response is an alternative child protective services (CPS) system that about 25 states in the U.S. have implemented since the 1990s. Evaluation reports have found that DR does not compromise child safety in comparison to traditional CPS approach. However, previous studies have not …
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Effects of Intervention on Booster Seat Purchase: A Field Study
… a leading cause of death and injury for US children, despite improved crashworthiness of vehicles and effective restraint systems for children of all ages. Children who are too large for child safety seats (a child restraint system for children from birth to 4 years old) are often restrained …
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Impact on Material and Child Health Knowledge as a Result of Participation in a Family Resource\Youth Services Center New and Expectant Parenting Series
… Parenting Series had an impact on maternal and child health knowledge of parents and their future behavior choices. The study had two components. First, a telephone survey was conducted with 40 past program participants asking them nine questions concerning behavior and lifestyle choices in …
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Beyond the Courtroom Door: Exploring the Feasibility of Child Protection Mediation in Ireland
In recent years, the Irish child protection and welfare system has witnessed an unprecedented level of increase in legislative and policy development. However, one area that remains relatively unexplored in Ireland is the use of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, such as mediation, in child …
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Motor Vehicle Collisions in London, Ontario: Estimating the influence of the built environment and children’s potential exposure
… collisions are the leading cause of death for children and youth worldwide. To effectively target interventions to improve child safety, it is necessary to identify where motor vehicle collisions occur most often and what factors make these areas more hazardous. Study #1 maps collisions in …
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Influence of Child Injury Risk Perceptions on Adult Supervision Behavior
<p> Parenting practices play an important role in child safety and injury prevention, and inadequate supervision poses a significant threat to child health. Intervention programs targeting injury beliefs have been shown to positively reduce risky play in children though these efforts vary with age …
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Children's representations of sources of safety in a high violence community
… vulnerable to physical threats. Insight into how children keep themselves safe has immense practical relevance, however little has been documented regarding children's perceived sources of safety. Using the methodology of Photovoice, ten children were recruited from a high violence community to …
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Making sense of media emotions around traffic reduction schemes: Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and School Streets in news and social media
… framed through a culturally resonant fear for child safety. To provide a different context, social media discourse on Twitter was not consistently negative but was instead emotionally polarised. Notably, the online emotional conversation around School Streets was predominantly positive. This …
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Exploring Occupational Stress Through the Persepectives of the Child Welfare Workforce
<p>The child welfare system is charged with providing safety, permanency, and wellbeing for millions of children impacted by abuse and neglect requiring a highly effective and efficient workforce. Unfortunately, the health of the child welfare workforce, organizations, and system have been …
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A Behavioral and Educational Treatment to Improve Adolescent Mothers Supervision and Home Safety Practices With Their Young Children
… cause of death and disabilityamong American children, and most injuries to children aged 1-5 years occur at home. Factors associated with increased risk for unintentional injury to young children include an overcrowded home environment, low SES, and living with a mother who is young, less …
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From Act to Action: Normalizing Child Protection Policies in an Aotearoa New Zealand School
Aotearoa New Zealand’s rates of child abuse and neglect (CAN) are amongst the worst in the OECD. The Children’s Act 2014 legislated for child protection policies (CPPs) to be implemented in all schools, in place of mandatory reporting. This includes the expectation all personnel—not just teachers, …
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Content-Moderation for End-to-End-Encrypted Platforms
In 2021, Apple proposed a mechanism to detect child-sexual-abuse-material (CSAM) in end-to-end encrypted content uploaded to iCloud. This mechanism leveraged a private set intersection (PSI) protocol to recover a decryption key for encrypted data that matched against a blocklist of hashes curated …
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Dynamics of school playground use in low-income neighborhoods : Four case studies from Newark, New Jersey
… time spent outdoors is a positive correlate of children's physical activity levels. Despite the importance currently attached to building healthy communities, children in the United States from economically disadvantaged urban neighborhoods often lack access to quality open space. In response to …
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Differences between adult and pediatric neck muscle stress due muscle recruitment patterns
<p>In 2000 and 2001 an estimated 150,000 children between the ages of 0 and 8 years old were injured or killed in a motor vehicle accident. Despite advances in child safety restraints and vehicle restraints, automobile accidents remain the primary cause of death for children in the 0-8 year old age …
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