Parenting interventions and the prevention of unintentional injuries in childhood: systematic review and meta-analysis.

Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of parenting interventions in preventing unintentional injury and increasing parental safety practices.

Data Sources: A range of medical and social science electronic databases were searched. Abstracts from the first to seventh World conferences on injury prevention and control and the journal Injury Prevention were hand searched.

Parenting interventions for the prevention of unintentional injuries in childhood.

Background: Parent education and training programmes can improve maternal psychosocial health, child behavioural problems and parenting practices. This review assesses the effects of parenting interventions for reducing child injury.

Objectives: To assess the effects of parenting interventions for preventing unintentional injury as well as increasing possession and use of safety equipment and parental safety practices.

Individual and group-based parenting programmes for the treatment of physical child abuse and neglect.

Background: Child physical abuse and neglect are important public health problems and recent estimates of their prevalence suggest that they are considerably more common than had hitherto been realised. Many of the risk factors for child abuse and neglect are not amenable to change in the short term. Intervening to change parenting practices may, however, be important in its treatment.

Pioneers, paediatricians and public health: the evolution of community child health services, Clifton, Nottingham 1983-1999.

Since 1976 developments in the training and services provided by general practitioners and community paediatricians have led to a series of changes in clinical services provided for children in the community. A series of studies carried out in the Clifton area of Nottingham from 1983 to 1999 illustrate this. A changing pattern of service delivery is reported in which clinical medical officers provided a largely primary care service in 1983 developing into a paediatric secondary care service in the next decade with the primary health care team having taken over the role of child health surveillance.