Safe child Penarth: Experience with a safe community strategy for preventing injuries to children

Injury Prevention

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 63-68

  Kemp, Alison ^a   Gibbs, Nigel ^b   Vafidis, Gail ^a   Sibert, Jo ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Penarth Town Council   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INJURY; PILOT STUDY; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; HUMANS; PILOT PROJECTS; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; WALES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0032018644     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: 14755785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.4.1.63     Document Type: Article

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