Recommended interventions to reduce injuries and deaths
· By: Drivers.com staff
· Date: 2001-07-03
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Motor vehicle-related injuries kill more children and young adults than any other single cause in the United States. More than 41,000 people in the U.S. die in motor vehicle crashes each year, and crash injuries result in about 500,000 hospitalizations and four million emergency department visits annually. The economic burden of motor vehicle-related deaths and injuries is also enormous, costing the United States more than $150 billion each year.
A new report provides recommendations about interventions that are effective at reducing motor vehicle-related injuries and deaths. " Motor Vehicle Occupant Injury: Strategies for Increasing Use of Child Safety Seats, Increasing Use of Safety Belts, and Reducing Alcohol-Impaired Driving " appears in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - Reports and Recommendations , May 18, 2001.
The report is the result of an extensive systematic review of scientific literature and describes interventions found to be effective at increasing the use of child safety seats, increasing the use of safety belts, and reducing alcohol-impaired driving. The Task Force on Community Preventive Services, an independent, non-federal panel of community health experts, issued these recommendations based on reviews conducted by CDC scientists. The following table summarizes the recommendations:
Interventions |
Interventions to Increase the Use of Child Safety Seats
Interventions to Increase the Use of Safety Belts
Interventions to Reduce Alcohol-Impaired Driving
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An overview of the
interventions and descriptions of the strongly recommended and recommended
interventions are available at the Community Guide web site. And two
related fact sheets are also available. Access the full
report here . It is anticipated that the report will be published in
the Fall of 2001, in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 
