Increasing the Use of Child Restraints in Motor Vehicles in a Hispanic Neighborhood
Gregory R. Istre, MD,
Mary A. McCoy,
Katie N. Womack, MS,
Linda Fanning, MS,
Laurette Dekat, MD, MPH and
Martha Stowe, MSW
Gregory R. Istre, Mary A. McCoy, Linda Fanning, and Martha Stowe are with Injury Prevention of Greater Dallas, Dallas, Tex. Gregory R. Istre is also with PID Associates, Dallas, Tex. Katie N. Womack is with the Texas Transportation Institute, College Station. Laurette Dekat is with the Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Community and Family Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.
FIGURE 1—Child restraint use for children from birth to age 4 years in various settings in the target area, compared with Dallas data, Dallas, Tex, 19972000.
FIGURE 2—Child restraint use for Hispanic children from birth to age 1 year and aged 2 to 4 years in various settings in the target area, Dallas, Tex, 19972000.