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Promoting children's home safety. [PDF]
BMJ, 1982 Home accidents are the main cause of death and morbidity in early childhood. Working-class children are at greatest risk. A study in an inner city area of the effects of a national television campaign about child accident prevention and of a locally designed health education initiative showed that 55% of families with young children in the study area ...
Colver AF, Hutchinson PJ, Judson EC
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BMC Geriatrics, 2023 Background Many older people with dementia currently prefer home care; however, homes are neither professionally designed nor regulated like health care facilities, and home care is more prone to safety incidents.
Guo Yin, Siting Lin, Linghui Chen
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Design and Implementation of a Smart Home System Using Multisensor Data Fusion Technology
Sensors, 2017 This paper aims to develop a multisensor data fusion technology-based smart home system by integrating wearable intelligent technology, artificial intelligence, and sensor fusion technology.
Yu-Liang Hsu +8 more
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Health Technology Assessment, 2014 Background: Unintentional injury is the leading cause of preventable death of children over the age of 1 year in the UK and a major cause of attendance at emergency departments.
Julie Mytton +13 more
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Sociodemographic determinants for risk exposure of child injuries at home with focus on burns
Social Welfare: Interdisciplinary Approach, 2019 Burns are a significant public health problem that occurs at home and especially affect children. Non-fatal burn victims suffer from prolonged hospitalization, disfigurement and disability, with consequences of stigma and rejection.
Birutė Strukčinskienė +3 more
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Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 2016 The London Health Sciences Centre Home Safety Program (HSP) provides safety devices, education, a safety video, and home safety checklist to all first-time parents for the reduction of childhood home injuries. The objective of this study was to evaluate the HSP for the prevention of home injuries in children up to 2 years of age.A program evaluation ...
Tanya Charyk, Stewart +10 more
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The Journal of Perinatal Education, 2016 ABSTRACTIn this column, the editor of The Journal of Perinatal Education introduces two key articles that discuss the current controversy regarding the safety of home birth versus hospital birth. The editor also describes the contents of this issue, which offer a broad range of resources, research, and inspiration for childbirth educators in their ...
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Unintentional injuries in the home environment: home safety [PDF]
Jornal de Pediatria, 2005 To review the characteristics of unintentional injuries and their impact on children and adolescents.Articles published between 2000 and 2005 in the MEDLINE, EBSCO, Proquest, SciELO, BVS and Google Scholar databases were selected. The authors used the keywords unintentional injuries, injuries, safe home, burns, falls, drowning, scorpions, snakes ...
Carlos E N, Paes, Vera L V, Gaspar
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Fall Prevention: Home Safety Inventory
EDIS, 2005 Homes you’ve lived in most of your life can cause problems as you age. Use this inventory to find possible problem areas. Skip any that don’t apply to you. If you answer “no” to any of the questions, make the needed change(s) as soon as possible.
Leigh Ann Martin
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BuildingsJordan’s aging population faces a critical challenge: a strong cultural preference for aging at home, rooted in Islamic ethics of familial care (birr al-wālidayn), conflicts with housing stock that is largely unsafe and inaccessible.
Majd Al-Homoud
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