Exam 8: Promoting Safety and Preventing Unintentional Injury

According to the National Injury Prevention Foundation, elementary school children enjoy learning new responsibilities and to influence family members and peers.

Which of the following is NOT one of the eight major recommendations for preventing injuries?

Select one of the National Health Education Standards for prevention of unintentional injuries. Create your own learning and assessment strategies for this standard for grades K-2, 3-5, and 6-8. Explain why you chose these strategies and how you think they would benefit the children in these age groups.

Kane and Quackenbush say that taking risks is

Discuss how unintentional injury affects the academic performance of students.

What are three developmentally appropriate learning strategies you could use in a classroom setting to promote safety and unintentional injury prevention? What could you do to assess those strategies?

What impact does poverty have on childhood injuries?

Lack of supervision is commonly associated with playground injuries.

In order to prevent home fires, every family should have all of the following EXCEPT

What are the costs of unintentional injuries among youth? In your opinion, who is most influential in protecting youth from unintentional injuries? Provide evidence from the text to support your answer.

What are the ABCs related to the traumatic brain injury?

Define the term injury.

Boys more often sustain playground injuries than girls do.

Three out of four fatally injured children were riding with drinking drivers.

Contrary to common belief, most statistics show risk-taking for females at a similar level to that of males.

Why is it important to teach school-age children how to prevent unintentional injury? Provide both your own opinion and public health evidence to support your answer.

Every state establishes child safety seat laws.

The majority of playground injuries occur in city parks.

All of the following statements are reasons young children are particularly at risk for unintentional injuries EXCEPT

When comparing males to females, the rate of unintentional injuries are