Child Safety Reference Frameworks: a Policy Tool for Child Injury Prevention at the Sub-national Level.

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this paper is to present the Child Safety Reference Frameworks (CSRF), a policy advice tool that places evidence-based child safety interventions, applicable at the sub-national level, into a framework resembling the Haddon Matrix.

METHOD: The CSRF is based on work done in previous EU funded projects, which we have adapted to the field of child safety. The CSRF were populated following a literature review.

RESULTS: Four CSRF were developed for four domains of child safety: road, water and home safety, and intentional injury prevention.

CONCLUSION: The CSRF can be used as a reference, assessment and comparative tool by child safety practitioners and policy makers working at the sub-national level.