Methods of Searching Resources

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Child Injury
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Introduction
Every day, the mainstream media, word reports and other sources of communication
report about child injuries. Notably, among the leading causes of such injuries include falls,
poisoning incidents, drowning, vehicle crashes, chocking as well as suffocation. In response to
such unintentional childhood injuries, many nations and words organizations have instituted
mechanisms that aim at minimizing or forestalling such incidents. There has been progress in
such initiative since deaths resulting from child injury have since decreased by 29% in the last
period of ten years. This paper explores childhood injury with respect to public health. The
purpose of the paper is to investigate childhood in details and offer recommendations on
preventing it. The paper will discuss the topic through the following sections: methods of
searching resources, review of the evidence, recommendation and a logical conclusion.
Methods
It is quite imperative that scholars need vital skills to conduct a deeper research in both
effective and efficient manner. More often than not, one needs to establish both a good habits
and practice to come up with an information-gathering routine that pays dividends. In seeking
information about my topic of focus, I followed a couple of steps. The first step involved
articulating the point where there was writing down of the topic in a concise and clear manner to
enhance specificity. The next step involved locating background information about. The third
step focused on identifying the needed information which was followed by listing of key
concepts and words for the databases and search engines. The next step involved consideration
of the topic, then conducting the actual searches finalizing with evaluation of the information
sources retrieved.
The rationale that informed the choice of the articles included:

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i. They provide insight into the critical issues with respect to the topic of research.
ii. The insights stimulate important questions.
iii. The articles use appropriate methods of exploring the issues that the research
addresses.
Review
According to DiMaggio and Li (2013), reports indicate high incidences of childhood
injuries in the U.S, specifically in New York. In a bid to mitigate this, the US national congress
decided to fund a national Safety Routes to School (SRTS) program whose objective was to
encourage teens to cycle or walk to school. This intervention targeted the pedestrians in New
York, school-aged, collected and analyzed data as to the extent the program reduced injuries to
this population, attributable to motor vehicle crashes, to establish its effectiveness.
Utilizing geocoded motor vehicle crash involving 168,806 teen pedestrian in New York between
2001 and 2010, the study established that pedestrian injured dropped by 33% among school
going children of ages 9 to 15 years. The study also established that the annual rate of school-
aged pedestrian injury at the time of travel to school reduced by 44% upon the rolling out of the
program. Comparatively, the pre-intervention rate was 8.0 injuries per 10,000 populations while
the post intervention rate stood at 4.4 injuries for every 10,000 population. Notably, without the
intervention, the rate remained virtually constant. Conclusively, SRTS is one of the effective
interventions of mitigating childhood injury, especially in school-aged children (DiMaggio & Li,
2013).
Guyer et al. (2011), suggested community-based injury prevention program as a strategy
effective in reducing the childhood injuries among the children of ages between 0 to 5 years.
Essentially, the most common injuries the program proved effective in preventing included