Home safety in inner cities: Prevalence and feasibility of home safety-product use in inner-city housing

Pediatrics

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Stone, Kimberly E ^a   Eastman, Emmanuella M ^a   Gielen, Andrea C ^b   Squires, Barbara ^c   Hicks, Glenda ^d   Kaplin, Dana ^d   Serwint, Janet R ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BALTIMORE CITY HEALTH DEPARTMENT   (United States)

^d Baltimore City Healthy Start Inc Maternal   (United States)

Author keywords

Accident prevention; Home accidents; Home injuries; Home safety products; Home visits; Injury prevention; Residential injuries

Indexed keywords

ALARM MONITOR; ARTICLE; CITY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FIRE PROTECTION; HOME SAFETY; HOUSING; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; PILOT STUDY; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; URBAN AREA;

ACCIDENTS, HOME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CITIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; PILOT PROJECTS; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAFETY; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 34547700727     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-2169     Document Type: Article

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