BENCHMARKING PROGRESS ON CHILD SAFETY ACTION IN EUROPE—THE RESULTS OF THE 2012 CHILD SAFETY REPORT CARDS

Background

Despite the existence of effective measures to reduce child unintentional injury, they are not always adopted and implemented. A lot of what is known to work requires government action in the form of national level policy or legislation. Child Safety Report Cards, developed in Europe in 2005, identify policy gaps, allow general European-level comparisons and measurement of improvements over time....