Repeal of the Massachusetts seat belt law.

Hingson, Ralph; Levenson, S. M.; Heeren, Timothy; Mangione, Thomas W.; Rodgers, C.; Schiavone, T; Hertz, Robin P.; Schiavonnet, T

doi:10.2105/ajph.78.5.548

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“…Another reason for studying injury-related preventability beliefs is because they have been linked to support for safety legislation (Hingson et al, 1988;Schenck et al, 1985;Hu et al, 1993). And a legislator's likelihood of voting for such legislation has been shown to be directly related to their perceptions of how much their constituents support it (Jason and Rose, 1984;Lowenstein et al, 1993).…”

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Public beliefs about the preventability of unintentional injury deaths

Girasek

2001

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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This report is based upon the results of a national random digit dialed telephone survey in which 943 adults were queried. Subjects reported the proportion of deaths due to motor vehicle crashes, falls, fires/burns, drowning and poisoning that they felt were preventable. On average, respondents believed that 56% of 'fatal accidents' were preventable; as were 62% of motor vehicle crash deaths, 53% of fall deaths, 67% of drownings, 62% of fire/burn fatalities and 70% of accidental poisonings. Logistic regression models predicting preventability beliefs differed according to the type of injury event in question, but socio-economic status and perceived alcohol involvement were positive predictors of beliefs related to all of the injuries under study. The ramifications of these findings and future research directions are discussed. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.

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Public beliefs about the preventability of unintentional injury deaths

Girasek

2001

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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“…11 Our review did not include studies that looked at public support for various injury countermeasures. [16][17][18][19] Although such support has been linked to effectiveness beliefs, 14,[20][21][22] it is also colored by views on government versus personal responsibility. To avoid confounding these two important aspects of public opinion, we focused exclusively on beliefs about the effectiveness of injury prevention measures.…”

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The Effectiveness of Injury Prevention Strategies: What Does the Public Believe?

Girasek

Gielen

2003

Health Educ Behav

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This article is based on a random digit dialed telephone survey in which adults were asked to name effective strategies for preventing deaths due to motor vehicle crashes, falls, drowning, fires/burns, and poisoning. A majority of the 943 respondents could name prevention techniques, although they were least likely to do so for fatal falls. Participants at highest risk for not naming a countermeasure were those with fewer years of education. The strategy cited most often for preventing deaths due to falls, poisoning, and drowning was safety education. These findings suggest that more advantaged members of the public feel they know how to prevent America's leading causes of injury death. They may not fully appreciate, however, the options of creating health-promoting environments and safer products. This work makes it very clear that people with less education also need to be exposed to the breadth of effective injury countermeasures.

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“…The majority of these injuries have been reported in young children between the ages of 4 and 9 years [1]. The introduction of the seat belt has reduced the rate of fatal outcomes in motor vehicle accidents by 40 -50 % [6]. However, most seat belts are designed for adults and do not fit over the pelvis but across the abdomen of children, predisposing younger children to abdominal and spinal injury [10].…”

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Chance Fracture - A Rare Injury in Pediatric Patients?

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Holland‐Cunz²,

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Eur J Pediatr Surg

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We report on a 9-year-old girl who was involved in a car accident. She suffered severe polytrauma with torn abdominal muscles, rupture of the mesenteric arteries, bowel and bladder, hematoma at the right colonic flexure and disruption of the intervertebral ligaments L2/L3, including the intervertebral disc, typical of Chance fracture. The abdominal bleeding was stopped, the bowel resected and the fracture fixed by internal fixation. The patient developed a postoperative enterocutaneous fistula in the right flank and paraplegia. She underwent three laparotomies with ileostomy and closure of the fistula. Two years later, she has normal bowel movement, the wounds are closed, the internal fixation has been removed, she is able to walk with crutches and suffers from a mild bladder dysfunction. Chance fracture is a typical fracture in adults involved in motor vehicle accidents. In the last 10 years, there have only been four case reports describing this fracture in children under the age of 10. All of these individuals were involved in a car accident and had been fixed with a lap belt. With the increasing use of lap belts, this fracture has to be considered even in young children. Mild clinical symptoms can be associated with severe intra-abdominal injuries.

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Repeal of the Massachusetts seat belt law.

Cited by 9 publications

References 2 publications

Public beliefs about the preventability of unintentional injury deaths

Public beliefs about the preventability of unintentional injury deaths

The Effectiveness of Injury Prevention Strategies: What Does the Public Believe?

Chance Fracture - A Rare Injury in Pediatric Patients?

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