U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Motor Vehicle Injury – Child Safety Seats: Community-Wide Information and Enhanced Enforcement Campaigns

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Systematic Review

Source: The Guide to Community Preventive Services

Last Reviewed: June 1998

Workgroups: Injury and Violence Prevention Workgroup

The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends community-wide information and enhanced enforcement campaigns to increase the use of child safety seats.
These interventions include: 

  • Mass media
  • Information and publicity
  • Public displays about safety seats 
  • Other strategies like checkpoints, dedicated law enforcement, or alternative penalties — such as warnings instead of citations
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Objectives related to this resource (3)

Reduce deaths from motor vehicle crashes — IVP‑06
Getting worse
Reduce the proportion of deaths of car passengers who weren't buckled in — IVP‑07
Little or no detectable change
Reduce emergency department visits for nonfatal unintentional injuries — IVP‑04
Little or no detectable change

Suggested Citation

1.

Guide to Community Preventive Services. (1998). Motor Vehicle Injury – Child Safety Seats: Community-Wide Information and Enhanced Enforcement Campaigns. Retrieved from https://www.thecommunityguide.org/findings/motor-vehicle-injury-child-safety-seats-community-wide-information-and-enhanced-enforcement