OCCUPANT PROTECTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION

This special issue on "Occupant Protection and Health Promotion" concentrates on the role of active measures for assuring greater safety for motor vehicle occupants, as well as strategies for and components of effective intervention programs. The papers describe occupant protection programs in community, medical care, corporate and school settings. In addition, selected research studies, position papers and epidemiologic approaches are presented which demonstrate the relevance of safety belt/child safety seat motivation efforts to health promotion. A review of child safety seat intervention efforts, a successful state-wide program, and a local health department program are described. Finally, resource on occupant protection which can provide further information, materials, and funding guidance to readers are presented.

• Availability:
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• Corporate Authors:

  John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated

  111 River Street
  Hoboken, NJ  United States  07030-6000
• Publication Date: 1984

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 109-111
• Serial:
  • Health Education Quarterly
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0195-8402

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Child restraint systems; Communities; Corporations; Epidemiology; Finance; Financing; Information dissemination; Manual safety belts; Medical services; Occupant protection devices; Promotion; Public health; Research; Schools
• Uncontrolled Terms: Occupant protection
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Education and Training; Finance; Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00450637
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-038 892
• Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Nov 30 1985 12:00AM