- Author
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Home Safety Council
- Title
- State of Home Safety in America: Facts About Unintentional Injuries in the Home. Executive Summary.
- Report
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
2002
- Keywords
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safety
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injuries
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statistics
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death
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costs
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surveys
- Abstract
- The Home Safety Council commissioned The State of Home Safety in America report to document: a) the occurrence of fatal and nonfatal unintentional home injury in America, b) cost associated with home injury, and c) safety issues and protective practices associated with injury at home. In addition, this report seeks to determine the gaps in home injury research and knowledge. By design, the report focuses on unintentional injuries and therefore does not address suicide, homicide, family violence or any other form of assault. Three broad approaches were used in creating the report. One involved analyses of existing data from national datasets to document fatal and nonfatal injuries occurring at home. The second approach involved computations to generate cost estimates associated with both fatal and nonfatal injuries. Third, a national random digit dial household survey was conducted with respondents in 1,003 households during the spring of 2002. Through this survey, the prevalence of major safety issues and protective practices were examined nationally.