Childhood Injury Prevention: Intervention in the Bedouin City of Rahat
For several years, the National Center for Children's Health and Safety (Beterem) has worked on many levels to promote safety and prevent injury of the children in Israel. As part of intervention programs in 20 communities around Israel, this paper describes a 1-year, multidisciplinary, multist...
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| author | Michal Hemmo-Lotem Efrat Merrick Liri Endy-Findling Aziza Abu Freh Claudia Jinich-Aronowitz Liat Korn Joav Merrick |
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| description | For several years, the National Center for Children's Health and Safety (Beterem) has worked on many levels to promote safety and prevent injury of the children in Israel. As part of intervention programs in 20 communities around Israel, this paper describes a 1-year, multidisciplinary, multistrategic childhood safety promotion and injury prevention project. The project took place in the Bedouin city of Rahat in the Southern part of Israel, the Negev, conducted by a local safety coordinator. This specific intervention study took place from March 2003 to March 2004. The main goal was to identify hazards and dangerous obstacles in public places in Rahat, then remove or repair the obstacles found, in order to secure a safe public environment for children. “Obstacle” was defined as any barrier that could endanger the safety of a child. Ten examples are used to illustrate this applied research project, and 80% of the problems were solved within the project period (time to solve between 1 week to 3 months, depending on various factors). We recommend the involvement of a safety coordinator from the community to focus on safety hazards for children, the use of a documentation diary to log the time frame, and also the use of pictures to illustrate the hazards and the changes, or to use as arguments in the lobbying process. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-fad7be6ab9224823bfc274b18914245a2025-02-03T01:33:28ZengWileyThe Scientific World Journal1537-744X2005-01-01559660810.1100/tsw.2005.70Childhood Injury Prevention: Intervention in the Bedouin City of RahatMichal Hemmo-Lotem0Efrat Merrick1Liri Endy-Findling2Aziza Abu Freh3Claudia Jinich-Aronowitz4Liat Korn5Joav Merrick6Beterem, National Center for Children's Health and Safety, Box 7050, IL-49170 Petach Tiqva, IsraelNational Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, IsraelBeterem, National Center for Children's Health and Safety, Box 7050, IL-49170 Petach Tiqva, IsraelBeterem, Rahat, IsraelBeterem, National Center for Children's Health and Safety, Box 7050, IL-49170 Petach Tiqva, IsraelBeterem, National Center for Children's Health and Safety, Box 7050, IL-49170 Petach Tiqva, IsraelNational Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, IsraelFor several years, the National Center for Children's Health and Safety (Beterem) has worked on many levels to promote safety and prevent injury of the children in Israel. As part of intervention programs in 20 communities around Israel, this paper describes a 1-year, multidisciplinary, multistrategic childhood safety promotion and injury prevention project. The project took place in the Bedouin city of Rahat in the Southern part of Israel, the Negev, conducted by a local safety coordinator. This specific intervention study took place from March 2003 to March 2004. The main goal was to identify hazards and dangerous obstacles in public places in Rahat, then remove or repair the obstacles found, in order to secure a safe public environment for children. “Obstacle” was defined as any barrier that could endanger the safety of a child. Ten examples are used to illustrate this applied research project, and 80% of the problems were solved within the project period (time to solve between 1 week to 3 months, depending on various factors). We recommend the involvement of a safety coordinator from the community to focus on safety hazards for children, the use of a documentation diary to log the time frame, and also the use of pictures to illustrate the hazards and the changes, or to use as arguments in the lobbying process.http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2005.70 |
| spellingShingle | Michal Hemmo-Lotem Efrat Merrick Liri Endy-Findling Aziza Abu Freh Claudia Jinich-Aronowitz Liat Korn Joav Merrick Childhood Injury Prevention: Intervention in the Bedouin City of Rahat The Scientific World Journal |
| title | Childhood Injury Prevention: Intervention in the Bedouin City of Rahat |
| title_full | Childhood Injury Prevention: Intervention in the Bedouin City of Rahat |
| title_fullStr | Childhood Injury Prevention: Intervention in the Bedouin City of Rahat |
| title_full_unstemmed | Childhood Injury Prevention: Intervention in the Bedouin City of Rahat |
| title_short | Childhood Injury Prevention: Intervention in the Bedouin City of Rahat |
| title_sort | childhood injury prevention intervention in the bedouin city of rahat |
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