Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Recommendations and Reports, May 18, 2001 / Vol. 50 / No. RR-7

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• Alternative Title:
  Motor-vehicle Occupant Injury: Strategies for Increasing Use of Child Safety Seats, Increasing Use of Safety Belts, and Reducing Alcohol-impaired Driving: A Report on Recommendations of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services
• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Recommendations and Reports
• Personal Author:
  Dinh-Zarr, Tho Bella ; Elder, Randy W. ; Finley, Erin P. ; Harris, Kate W. ; Shults, Ruth A. ; Sleet, David A. ; Sosin, Daniel M. ; Young-Curtis, Patryce V. ; Zaza, Stephanie
• Corporate Authors:
  Task Force on Community Preventive Services (U.S.) ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (U.S.)
• Description:
  The Task Force on Community Preventive Services has conducted systematic reviews of interventions designed to increase use of child safety seats, increase use of safety belts, and reduce alcohol-impaired driving. The Task Force strongly recommends the following interventions: laws requiring use of child safety seats, distribution and education programs for child safety seats, laws requiring use of safety belts, both primary and enhanced enforcement of safety belt use laws, laws that lower the legal blood alcohol concentration (BAC) limit for adult drivers to 0.08%, laws that maintain the minimum legal drinking age at 21 years, and use of sobriety checkpoints. The Task Force recommends communitywide information and enforcement campaigns for use of child safety seats, incentive and education programs for use of child safety seats, and a lower legal BAC for young drivers (in the United States, those under the minimum legal drinking age). This report provides additional information regarding these recommendations, briefly describes how the reviews were conducted, and provides information to help apply the interventions locally.
• Content Notes:
  Includes bibliographical references.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Traffic / Prevention & Control Alcohol Drinking Automobile Driving / Standards Child Restraint Systems / Utilization Seat Belts Wounds And Injuries
• Source:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Recommendations and Reports, 2001; v. 50, no. 7
• Series:
  Recommendations and Reports: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  1057-5987 (print) ; 1545-8601 (digital)
• Pubmed ID:
  12418509
• Document Type:
  Journal Issue
• Genre:
  Guidance
• Pages in Document:
  24 pdf pages
• Volume:
  50
• Issue:
  7
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/12040/cdc_12040_DS1.pdf
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