Box 3.
Twelve opportunities for child injury prevention
1.
Childhood injury data – collect, analyse and disseminate.
2.
Collaboration – develop relationships with local injury prevention professionals.
3.
Injury prevention strategy – locate or help to develop.
4.
Child health surveillance – provide age-specific advice.
5.
At injury consultations – provide targeted + opportunistic advice.
6.
At general consultations – deliver opportunistic advice.
7.
Prescribing and dispensing – opportunistic advice on safe storage and disposal of medication.
8.
At home visits – identify hazards and encourage safer practice.
9.
Safety equipment – support access to local equipment schemes.
10.
Safety issues – lobby and campaign, act as local ‘champion’.
11.
Identification of new hazards – share with networks and local media.
12.
Injury prevention research – participate or initiate.