Prevention
Many developed countries have reduced their child injury deaths by up to 50% over the past three decades by:
- enforcing safety laws such as requiring child-resistant closures for medicines or poisons;
- modifying products like stairway railings, so children will not try to squeeze through or get stuck in the gaps;
- requiring environmental changes, such as fencing around pools;
- conducting public awareness campaigns about injury prevention; and
- providing better, child-oriented emergency care.