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Injuries: key references and evidence

References

Children in Scotland (2007) What I Think Matters: Serious Accidents and Injuries. Report on a survey of children and young people. Children in Scotland, Edinburgh

IOBI (2006) Britain and Ireland Deaths due to Injury, Injury in Children, NHS Health Scotland (2004)

NHS Health Scotland (2006) Health Education Population Survey - Accidents and Safety 1996-2004,

Child Unintentional Strategy Action Plan Child Safety StrategyPDF Button(717kb)

Effectiveness evidence

ScotPHO’s purpose is to describe the pattern of health across the Scottish population. As a supplementary service to users, we include the following links to external sources of quality-assured evidence on effectiveness of interventions which may include relevant material for this topic.

NHS Health Scotland: Scottish perspectives on NICE public health guidance - Index page

National Library for Public Health - Home page

Centre for Reviews and Dissemination - Home page

Cochrane Reviews - Topic index page

EPPI-Centre: Evidence library - Home page

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidance - Topic index page

Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) - Home page

Note: The effectiveness evidence links are provided as an aid to users. They are by no means exhaustive nor should they be necessarily viewed as authoritative. The usual ScotPHO disclaimer about links to external sites applies.