Injury Prevention Measures in Households With Children in the United States, 1990

Advance Data 250.  This report presents data from the 1990 National Health Interview Survey. The prevention measures of interest include the utilization of restraint devices in motor vehicles, possession of a functional smoke detector, awareness of poisoning-related interventions, and use of appropriate scald prevention techniques. Child characteristics explored include age, gender, race, and Hispanic origin. Children are also classified by the attributes of their household including family structure, the educational attainment of the responsible adult in the household, household income, and number of household members as well as by geographic characteristics of their household including region of the country, residential setting, and housing type.

Data Highlights:

Children in families of three to five members are more likely to be in households adopting preventive practices than children from other family types and sizes.

Of the geographic variables examined, only region and residential area have an association with any of the preventive measures examined.

Only a small percent of children live in households that use scald prevention and poison control techniques.

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