Flag of Canada
Government of Canada Government of Canada
 
Français Contact Us Help Search Canada Site
About Us Services Where You Live Policies & Programs A-Z Index Home
    Home >  Programs and Services > Policies, Planning and Reporting
Services for you

Effects of Neighbourhood, Family, and Child Behaviour on Childhood Injury in Canada - March 2001

  What's New Our Ministers
Media Room Forms
E-Services
Publications Frequently Asked Questions Accessibility Features

  Services for: Individuals Business Organizations Services Where You Live
 

References

PreviousContents 

Aagran. P.F., Winn, D.G., Anderson, C.L., Del Valle, C. (1998). Family, social, and cultural factors in pedestrian injuries among Hispanic children. Injury Prevention, 4, pp.188-193.

Alexander, C.S., Somerfield, M.R., Ensminger, M.E., Kim, Y.J., and Johnson, K.E. (1995). Gender differences in injuries among rural youth. Injury Prevention, 1, pp.15-20.

Alwash, R., and McCarthy, M. (1988). Accidents in the home among children under 5: Ethnic difference or social disadvantage? British Medical Journal, 296, pp. 1450-1453.

Backett, E.M. and Johnston, A.M. (1997). Social patterns of road accidents to children: Some characteristics of vulnerable families. British Medical Journal, I, pp. 409-413.

Bagley, C. (1992). The urban setting of juvenile pedestrian injuries: A study of behavioral ecology and social disadvantage. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 24, pp. 673-678.

Baker, S.P., O'Neill, B., and Karpf, R.S. (1984). The Injury Fact Book. MA: Lexington.

Baron, R.M. and Kenny, D.A. (1986). The moderator-mediator variables distinction in social psychological research: conceptual, strategic and statistical considerations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51, pp. 1173-1182.

Beautrais, A.L., Fergusson, D.M. and Shannon, F.T. (1982). Childhood accidents in a New Zealand birth cohort. Australian Paediatrics, 18, pp. 238-242.

Bijur, P., Golding, J., Haslum, M., and Kurzon, M. (1988). Behavioral predictors of injury in school-age children. American Journal of Disease in Children, 142, pp. 1307-1312.

Bijur, P.E., Stewart-Brown, S., and Butler, N. (1986). Child behavior and accidental injury in 11, 966 preschool children. American Journal of Disease in Children, 140, pp. 487-492.

Black, D., Morris, J., Smith, C. and Townsend, P. (1982). Inequalities in Health: The Black Report. Markham: Penguin Books.

Block, J. (1983). Differential premises arising from differential socialization of the sexes: Some conjectures. Child Development, 54, pp. 1335-1354.

Boyle, M.H., and Lipman, E.L. (1998). Do Places Matter? A Multilevel Analysis of Geographic Variations in Child Behaviour in Canada. Applied Research Branch of Strategic Policy. Human Resources Development Canada.

Bronfenbrenner, U. (1986). Ecology of the family as a context for human development: Research perspectives. Developmental Psychology, 22, pp. 723-742.

Campbell, S.B., March, C.L., Pierce, E.W., Ewing, L.J., and Szumowski, E.K. (1991). Hard-to-manage preschool boys: Family context and the stability of externalizing behavior. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 19, pp. 301-318.

Canadian Institute of Child Health. (1994). The Health of Canada's Children: A Statistical Profile. Ottawa: Ont.

Cataldo, M.F., Finney, J.W., Richman, G.S., Riley, A.W., Hook, R.J., Brophy, C.J., and Nau, P.A. (1992). Behavior of injured and uninjured children and their parents in a simulated hazardous setting. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 17, pp. 73-80.

Chase-Lansdale, P.L., and Gordon, R.A. (1996). Economic hardship and the development of five- and six-year-olds: neighbourhood and regional perspectives. Child Development, 67, 3338-3367.

Ciastko, A.R. (1997). Accidents and poisonings in children: A regional view. BC Medical Journal, 39, 198-201.

Coppens, N.M., and Gentry, L.K. (1991). Video analysis of playground injury-risk situations. Research in Nursing and Health, 14, 129-136.

Corin, E. (1994). The social and cultural matrix of health and disease consuming health care. In Evans, R.G., Barer, M.L., Marmor, T.R. (Eds). Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not? New York: Aldine De Gruyter, 93-132.

Christoffel, K. K. (1993). Child and adolescent injury in the United States: How occupational injuries fit in. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 24, 301-311.

Davidson, L.L. (1987). Hyperactivity, antisocial behavior, and childhood injury: A critical analysis of the literature. Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 8, 335-340.

Davidson, L.L., Taylor, E.A., Sandberg, S.T., and Thorley, G. (1992). Hyperactivity in school-age boys and subsequent risk of injury. Pediatrics, 90, 697-702.

Dershewitz, R.A., and Christophersen, E.R. (1984). Childhood household safety: An overview. American Journal of Diseases in Children, 138, 85-88.

Diez-Roux, A.V. (1998). Bringing context back into epidemiology: Variables and fallacies in multilevel analysis. American Journal of Public Health, 88, 216-222.

Dora, C., and Racioppi, F. (2000). A Charter on Transport, Environment and Health: Integrating Road Safety with Environmental and Health Gains. Fifth World Conference on Injury Prevention and Control. Sharing Experiences, Blending Perspectives. New Delhi, 5-8 March, 2000.

Dougherty, G., Pless, I.B., and Wilkins R. (1990). Social class and the occurrence of traffic injuries and deaths in urban children. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 81, 204-209.

Dowswell, T., Towner, E. M. L., Simpson, G., and Jarvis, S. N. (1996). Preventing childhood unintentional injuries what works?: A literature review. Injury Prevention, 2, 140-149.

Dunne, R.G., Asher, K.N., and Rivara, F.P. (1992). Behavior and parental expectations of child pedestrians. Pediatrics, 89, 486-490.

Durkin, M.S., Davidson, L.L., Kuhn, L., O'Connor, P. and Barlow, B. (1994). Low-income neighborhoods and the risk of severe pediatric injury: A small-area analysis in northern Manhattan. American Journal of Public Health, 84, 587-592.

Emerick, S.J., Foster, L.R. and Campbell, D.T. (1986). Risk factors for traumatic infant death in Oregon, 1973-1982. Pediatrics ,77, 518-522.

Epp, J. 1986. Achieving Health for All: A Framework for Health Promotion. Catalogue No. H39-102/1986E, Health and Welfare Canada, Ottawa.

FCM Quality of Life Reporting System. (1998). Developing a Municipal Quality of Employment Measure. Consultation Document. Regional Municipality of Hamilton-Wentworth.

Finney, J.W., and Cataldo, M.F. (1991). Child and parent behavior and unintentional home injuries. Advances in Child Health Psychology. University of Florida Press: Gainesville.

Fisher, L., and Ransom, D.C. (1995). An empirically derived typology of families: I. Relationships with adult health. Family Process, 34, 161-182.

Fisher, L., Soubhi, H., Mansi, O., Paradis, G., Gauvin, L., and Potvin, L. (1998). Family process in health research: Extending a family typology to a new cultural context. Health Psychology, 17, 358-366.

Fullilove, M.T. (1998). Promoting social cohesion to improve health. Journal of the American Medical Womens Association, 53, 72-6.

Gable, S., and Peterson, L. (1998). School-age children's attributions about their own naturally occurring minor injuries: A process analysis. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 23, 323-32.

Gallagher, S. S., Hunter, P., Guyer, B. (1985). A home injury prevention program for children. Pediatric Clinics of North America, 32, 95-113.

Ginsburg, H.J., and Miller, S.M. (1982). Sex differences in children's risk-taking behavior. Child Development, 53, 426-428.

Glik, D., Kronenfeld, J., and Jackson, K. (1993). Safety behaviors among parents of preschoolers. Health Values, 17, 18.

Goodman, E. (1999). The role of socioeconomic status gradients in explaining differences in US adolescents' health. American Journal of Public Health, 89, 1522-1528

Hertzman, C., Frank, J. and Evans, R.G. (1994). Heterogeneities in health status and the determinants of population health. In Evans, R.G., Barer, M.L., Marmor, T.R. editors. Why are some people healthy and others not? (pp. 67-92). New York: Aldine De Gruyter.

Hillier, L.M., and Morongiello, B.A. (1998). Age and gender differences in school-age children's appraisals of injury risk. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 23, 229-238.

Hosmer, D.W., and Lemeshow, S. (1989). Applied logistic regression. New York: John Wiley and Sons.

Hu, X., Wesson, D., and Kenney, B. (1993). Home injuries to children. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 84, 155-158.

Jencks, C., and Mayer, S.E. (1990). The social consequences of growing up in a poor neighbourhood. In L.E. Lynn, Jr. and G.H. McGeary (Eds.), Inner City Poverty In The United States (pp. 111-186). Washington DC: National Academy Press.

Jolly, D.L., Moller, J.N. and Volkmer, R.E. (1993). The socioeconomic context of child injury in Australia. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 29, 438-444.

Kaplan, G.A., Pamuk, E.R., Lynch, J.W., Cohen, R.D. and Balfour, J.L. (1996). Inequality in income and mortality in the United States: Analysis of mortality and potential pathways. British Medical Journal, 312, 999-1003.

Kawachi, I., Kennedy, B.P., Lochner, K., Prothrow-Stith, D. (1997). Social capital, income inequality, and mortality. American Journal of Public Health, 87, 1491-8.

Kendall, P.C., and Wilcox, L.E. (1979). Self-control in children: Development of a rating scale. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 47, 1020-1029.

Kennedy, B.P., Kawachi, I. and Prothrow-Stith, D. (1996). Income distribution and mortality: cross-sectional ecologic study of the Robin Hood index in the United States. British Medical Journal, 312, 1004-1007.

King, W.D. and Palmissano, P.A. (1992). Racial differences in childhood hospitalized pedestrian injuries. Pediatric Emergency Care, 8, 221-224.

Klein, D. (1980). Societal influences on childhood accidents. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 12, 275-281.

Kohen, D., Soubhi, H., and Raina, P. (2000). Maternal reports of child injuries in Canada: Trends and patterns by age and gender. Injury Prevention, 6, 223-228.

Kramer, R.A., Allen, L., Gergen, P.J. (1995). Health and social characteristics and children's cognitive functioning: Results from a national cohort. American Journal of Public Health, 85, 312-318.

Kunst, A.E. and Mackenbach, J. (1996). International comparisons of socioeconomic inequalities in mortality. Social Science and Medicine.

Kupersmidt, J.B., Griesler, P.C., DeRosier, M.E., Patterson, C.J., and Davis, P.W. (1995). Childhood aggression and peer relations in the context of family and neighbourhood factors. Child Development, 66, 360-375.

Langley, J., McGee, R., Silva, P., and Williams, S. (1983). Child behavior and accidents. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 8, 181-189.

Lantz, P.M., House, J.S., Lepkowski, J.M., Williams, D.R. and Mero, R.P. et al. (1998). Socioeconomic factors, health behaviors and mortality. Journal of the American Medical Association, 279, 1703-1708.

Lynch, J.W., Kaplan, G.A., Pamuk, E.R., Cohen, R.D. and Heck, K.E. et al. (1998). Income inequality and mortality in metropolitan areas of the United States. American Journal Public Health, 88, 1074-1080.

Lyons, R. A., Delahunty, A.M., Heaven, M., McCabe, M., Allen, H. Nash, P. (2000). Incidence of childhood fractures in affluent and deprived areas; population based study. British Medical Journal, 320, 149.

Malmstrom, M., Sundquist, J., and Johansson, S.E., (1999). Neighborhood environment and self-reported health status: A multilevel analysis. American Journal of Public Health, 89, 1181-1186.

Manheimer, D.I., and Mellinger, G.D. (1997). Personality characteristics of the child accident repeater. Injury Prevention, 3, 135-43.

Matheny, A. P. (1986). Injuries among toddlers: Contributions from child, mother, and family. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 11, 163-176.

Matheny, A. P. (1988). Accidental injuries. In D. Routh (Ed.), Handbook of Pediatric Psychology. NY: Guilford.

Matheny, A.P. (1987). Psychological characteristics of childhood accidents. Journal of Social Issues, 43, 45-60.

McLoyd, V.C. (1998). Socioeconomic disadvantage and child development. American Psychologist, 53, 185-204.

Mierley, M.C. and Baker, S.P. (1983). Fatal housefires in an urban population. Journal of the American Medical Association, 249, 1466-1468.

Morongiello, B.A. (1997). Children's perspectives on injury and close-call experiences: Sex differences in injury outcome processes. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 22, 499-512.

Nersesian, W.S., Petit, M.R., Shaper, R., Lemieux, D. and Naor, E. (1985). Childhood death and poverty: a study of all childhood deaths in Maine, 1976 to1980. Pediatrics, 75, 41-50.

Parker, R.M., Rescorla, L.A, Finkelstein, J.A., Barnes, N., Holmes, J.H, and Stolley, P.D. (1991). A survey of the health of homeless children in Philadelphia shelters. American Journal of Disease in Children, 145, 520-526.

Peterson L. and Stern B.L. (1997). Family processes and child risk for injury. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 35, 179-90.

Peterson, L., and Saldana, L. (1996). Accelerating children's risk for injury: Mothers' decisions regarding common safety rules. Journal of Behavioural Medicine, 19, 317-331.

Peterson, L., Mori, L., and Scissors, C. (1986). Mom or Dad says I shouldn't: Supervised and unsupervised children's knowledge of their parents' rules for home safety. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 11, 1986.

Platt, M.J., and Pharoah, P.O.D. (1996). Child health statistical review, 1996. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 75, 527-533.

Pless, I.B., Peckham, C.S., and Power, C. (1989). Predicting traffic injuries in childhood: A cohort analysis. The Journal of Pediatrics, 115, 932-8.

Pless, I.B., Verreault, R., Aresenault, L., Frappier, J.Y., Stulginkas, J. (1987). The epidemiology of road accidents in childhood. American Journal of Public Health, 77, 358-360.

Putnam, R.D. (1994). Making democracy work. Princeton, New Jersey.

Ransom, D.C. (1986). Random notes: Research on the family in health, illness and care, state of the art. Family Systems Medicine, 4, 329-336.

Reading R., Langford I.H., Haynes R., and Lovett A. (1999). Accidents to preschool children: comparing family and neighbourhood risk factors. Social Science and Medicine. 48, 321-30.

Rivara, F.P., Barber, M. (1985). Demographic analysis of childhood pedestrian injuries. Pediatrics, 76, 375-381.

Rivara, F.P., Bergman, A.B., LoGerfo, J.P., and Weiss, N.S. (1982). Epidemiology of childhood injuries. American Journal of Diseases in Children, 136, 502-506.

Rivara, F.P., and Mueller, B.A. (1987). The epidemiology and causes of childhood injuries. Journal of Social Issues, 43, 13-31.

Roberts, I. (1994). Sole parenthood and the risk of child pedestrian injury. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 30, 530-2.

Roberts, I., Norton, R., and Jackson, R. (1995). Driveway-related child pedestrian injuries: a case control study. Pediatrics, 95, 405-8.

Robertson, L.S. (1998). Injury Epidemiology: Research and Control Strategies (2nd edition). New York: Oxford University Press.

Rosengren, A., Orth-Gomer, K., Wedel, H. and Wilhelmsen, L. (1993). Stressful life events, social support and mortality in men born in 1933. British Medical Journal, 307, 1102-1105.

Rubin, L.B. (1976). Worlds of Pain: Life in the Working Class Family. New York: Basic Books.

Saegart, S., and Hart, R. (1976). Seven-Year-Olds in the Home Environment. London: Allen and Unwin.

Sampson, R.J., Raudenbush, S.W. and Earls, F. (1997). Neighborhoods and violent crime: a multi-level study of collective efficacy. Science, 15, 918-924.

Schor, E.L. (1987). Unintentional injuries. Patterns within families. American Journal of Diseases in Children, 141, 1280-1284.

Sclar, E.D. (1980). Community economic structure and individual well-being: A look behind the statistics. International Journal of Health Services, 10, 563-579.

Simons, R.L., Johnson, C., Beaman, J., Conger, R.D., and Whitbeck, Les B. (1996). Parents and peer group as mediators of the effect of community structure on adolescent problem behavior. American Journal of Community Psychology, 24, 145-171.

Soubhi, H., and Potvin, L. (2000). The home as a health promotion setting. In B. Polland, I. Rootman and L.W. Green (Eds.), Settings for Health Promotion: Linking Theory and Practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage

Soubhi, H., Raina, P., Chong, M., Turcotte, K., Babul, S., Olsen, L., and Scanlan, A. (1999). Unintentional Injuries in British Columbia: Trends and patterns among children and youth, 1987-1996. BC Injury Research and Prevention Unit.

Special Surveys Division. (1996). Special Surveys. National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth: User's Handbook and Microdata Guide. Ottawa: Statistics Canada and Human Resources Development Canada.

Susser, M. (1987). Epidemiology, Health and Society. Selected Papers. New York: Oxford University Press.

Szklo, M., and Nieto, F.J. (2000). Epidemiology. Beyond the Basics. Gaithersburg, Maryland: Aspen Publishers, Inc.

Tietjen, A.M. (1989). The ecology of children's social support networks. In D. Belle (Ed.), Children's Social Networks and Social Supports, (pp. 37-69). New York: John Wiley and Sons.

Towner, E.M.L., Jarvis, S.N., Walsh, S.S. and Aynsley-Green, A. (1994). Measuring exposure to injury risk in school children ages 11-14. British Medical Journal, 308, 449-452.

Valach, L., Young, R.A., and Lynam, M.J. (1996). Family health-promotion projects. An action-theoretical perspective. Journal of Health Psychology, 1, 49-63.

Valsiner, J., and Lightfoot, C. (1987). Process structure of parent-child environment relations and the prevention of children's injuries. Journal of Social Issues, 43, 61-72.

Vital Statistics Agency. (1996). Selected Vital Statistics and Health Status Indicators. Victoria, BC: B.C. Ministry of Health.

Wazana, A. (1997). Are there injury-prone children? A critical review of the literature. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 42, 602-10.

Wazana A., Krueger P., Raina P., and Chambers L (1997). A review of risk factors for child pedestrian injuries: are they modifiable? Injury Prevention, 3, 295-304.

Weissman, M.N., John, K., Merikangas, K.R., Prusoff, B.A., Wickramaratne, P., Gammon, D., Angold, A., and Warner, V. (1986). Depressed parents and their children. General health, social, and psychiatric problems. American Journal of Diseases in Children, 140, 801-805.

Wilkinson, R.G. (1996). Unhealthy societies: the afflictions of inequality. London, England: Routledge.

Williams, J.M., Currie, C.E., Wright, P., Elton, R.A. and Beattie, T.F. (1996). Socioeconomic status and adolescent injuries. Social Science Medicine, 44, 1881-1891.

Yarmey, A.D., and Rosenstein, S.R. (1988). Parental predictions of their children's knowledge about dangerous situations. Child Abuse and Neglect, 12, 355-61.

Zayas, L.H. (1995). Family functioning and child rearing in an urban environment. Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 16, S21-S24.

Zettle, R.D., and Hayes, S.C. (1983). Effect of social context on the impact of coping self-statements.

PreviousContents 
     
   
Last modified : 2005-01-11 top Important Notices