In industrialised countries injuries are the leading cause of childhood death and steep social gradients exist in child injury mortality and morbidity. The majority of injuries in pre-school children occur at home, but there is little meta-analytic evidence that child home safety interventions improve a range of safety practices or reduce injury rates and little evidence on their effect by social group.
University of Nottingham, Division of Primary Care, Floor 13, Tower Building, University Park, Nottingham, UK, NG7 2RD. denise.kendrick@nottingham.ac.uk
