World Health Organization Publishes Child Injury Prevention Report

Last Wednesday, the World Health Organization announced the release of a groundbreaking report entitled The World Report on Child Injury Prevention, which provides the first comprehensive global assessment of unintentional childhood injuries and prescribes measures to prevent them. It concludes that if proven prevention measures were adopted everywhere at least 1000 children’s lives could be saved every day.

The report finds that the top five causes of child injury deaths are:

Road crashes
Drowning
Burns
Falls
Poisoning

Child injury prevention measures cited in the Report include:

Laws on child-appropriate seatbelts and helmets;
Hot tap water temperature regulations;
Child-resistant closures on medicine bottles, lighters and household product containers;
Separate traffic lanes for motorcycles or bicycles;
Draining unnecessary water from baths and buckets;
Redesigning nursery furniture, toys and playground equipment;
Strengthening emergency medical care and rehabilitation services

Download a copy of the Injury Prevention Report

See key figures, tables and maps

This list of child injury prevention best practices adopted in various countries is also helpful.

About the Author

Tom D'Amore is the founder of D'Amore Law Group and a trial attorney with over 30 years of experience representing injured people and their families across the West Coast, securing more than $325 million in recoveries. He handles cases involving car accidents, trucking accidents, construction injuries, medical malpractice, and sexual abuse. Licensed in Oregon, Washington, and California, Tom is the only NBTA board-certified truck accident attorney in Oregon. He is a national Board of Governors member, past Executive Committee member, and past Budget and Audit Chair of the American Association for Justice, as well as past President of the Oregon Trial Lawyers Association and an Eagle member of the Washington State Association for Justice.