趣赢平台工具帮助保护儿童乘客

Vehicle crashes are a major cause of injuries and fatalities among children, 这是美国提倡安全的一个问题.S. acknowledge and work to minimize by heightening awareness of how caregivers can keep children safe when traveling in vehicles. 2024年9月15日至21日，标志着孩子 旅客安全周这是一个重要的纪念活动. 为了纪念这一周, 西方是儿童乘客安全方面的专家, 地理信息系统, and statistical research have collaborated to share information about our new 座位检查覆盖图，和 国家数字汽车座椅检查表（NDCF） 指示板.

座位检查覆盖图挽救生命

汽车座椅检查在哪里进行, and what is the ratio of checks to children in a geographic area? 韦斯特的跨学科团队, 包括地理信息系统专家, 开发了座位检查覆盖图, which pulls American Community Survey (ACS) data from the 2020 Census to provide this information to child passenger safety advocates, 研究人员, 注册儿童乘客安全技术员, 项目协调员, 以及汽车座椅和汽车制造商.

“This new tool is game-changing,” said 趣赢平台’s Elizabeth Petraglia, PhD. “它允许国家决策者, 状态, and local levels to see where resources and personnel are – and are not – helping them to focus efforts in geographic areas that need those resources to help reduce child passenger injuries and fatalities.”

Both tools have been well-received by partners, clients, and practitioners. “We truly believe our partnership with the NDCF helps us stand out from the crowd,布莱恩·劳舍尔说, 营运总监 安全开始  “While other organizations talk about what they’re doing and the impact they’re hoping to make, 安全启动, we aren’t just talking about the impact we hope to make; with the NDCF, 我们可以证明它.” He notes that this helps 安全开始 fund its mission, 说, “感谢国家发展基金, we can access all our child passenger safety data in real-time in incredible fidelity. This allows us to empirically show th安全启动’s Rural 教育 Outreach (REO) program has fundamentally changed the way rural families in the Northwest access child passenger safety services.”

聚焦种族不平等

Data suggest racial inequities in the number of child car seat safety checks, which could lead to disparities in child passenger safety. By merging the data on car safety seat checks and population data from the ACS, 趣赢平台 and our partners are providing practitioners and policymakers with the means to address and close these gaps, making traveling in passenger vehicles safer for all children.

“We can’t fix problems and inequities we don’t know about,” said 阿黛尔Polson, a 趣赢平台 Senior Research Associate for Social Policy and Economic Research. “This tool gives child passenger safety experts the data they need to effect change, and decisionmakers the detailed and timely information they need to address these inequities.”

与儿童安全专业人士分享

Polson recently shared the coverage map with attendees at August’s Kidz in Motion大会在美国，它受到了广泛的欢迎. “Child passenger safety experts are hungry for this kind of data,” she said. “就像我和我的韦斯特同事一样, they are passionate about keeping kids safe on the road and reducing injuries in vehicle crashes. We’re excited to share this integrated data with them and the larger public and hope it leads to further innovation in the industry.”

波尔森计划在2025年到达现场 道路安全救生员会议, and will continue to share this resource through webinars within the child passenger safety community.

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