Saving Children

This superb guide to the prevention of childhood injury is concise, carefully organized, clearly written, authoritative and realistic.

It adopts a developmental approach to understanding the causes of injury and planning intervention, whether in infants, toddlers, preschoolers, elementary school children or young adolescents.

Detailed information on specific injury is presented under an environmental rubric: the roadway, the home, the school and recreational area.

Each chapter summarizes facts about the specific type of injury being considered, discusses developmental issues that affect its occurence, and then offers guidelines to prevention.

Not only accidents but intentional injuries are covered.