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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
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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.
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Content Notes:The following CDC staff members prepared this report: Stephanie Zaza, Kate W. Harris, Patryce V. Young-Curtis, Erin P. Finley, Division of Prevention Research and Analytic Methods, Epidemiology Program Office; Ruth A. Shults, David A. Sleet, Randy W. Elder, Tho Bella Dinh-Zarr, Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control; Daniel M. Sosin, Office of the Director. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.
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Pubmed ID:12418509
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