title: Legislation coverage for child injury prevention in China.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the extent to which effective interventions to prevent unintentional child injury are reflected in the laws and regulations of China.
  
  
  METHODS
  We focused on the six common causes of fatal child injuries - drowning, road traffic injury, falls, poisoning, burns and suffocation. We investigated 27 interventions recommended by the United Nations Children's Fund, the World Health Organization or the European Child Safety Alliance. We searched China National Knowledge Infrastructure and Lawyee for Chinese legislations using keywords and synonyms for the 27 interventions. We reviewed the identified legislations for statements specifying the responsible implementation department.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Seven national laws, nine regulations of the State Council and 46 departmental regulations were found to relate to at least one of the interventions. Although seven of the 27 internationally recommended interventions were covered by Chinese laws, 10 were not covered by any current Chinese law or regulation. None of the interventions against drowning and falls that we investigated was covered by national laws. The implementation responsibilities for effective interventions were either not specified or were assigned to multiple governmental departments in 11 or 20 legislative documents, respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In Chinese laws and regulations, interventions proven to prevent major causes of unintentional child injuries are underrepresented and the associated implementation responsibilities are often poorly defined. China should include all such interventions in laws and regulations, and assign implementation responsibility for each to a single department of the national government.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Central South University, 110 Xiangya Road, Changsha, 410078, China .
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Section of Health and Nutrition and Water, Environment and Sanitation, United Nations Children's Fund, Beijing, China .
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Scherpbier
authors.affiliation: Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC), Beijing, China .
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: Section of Health and Nutrition and Water, Environment and Sanitation, United Nations Children's Fund, Beijing, China .
authors.forename: Xu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Central South University, 110 Xiangya Road, Changsha, 410078, China .
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Central South University, 110 Xiangya Road, Changsha, 410078, China .
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC), Beijing, China .
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC), Beijing, China .
authors.forename: Jiesi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Central South University, 110 Xiangya Road, Changsha, 410078, China .
authors.forename: Guoqing
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hu
mesh_terms: D000056:Accident Prevention / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000379:methods*; D000058:Accidental Falls / Q000517:prevention & control; D000059:Accidents; D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000517:prevention & control; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002056:Burns / Q000517:prevention & control; D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002681:China; D004332:Drowning / Q000517:prevention & control; D005260:Female; D006260:Head Protective Devices; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000517:prevention & control*; D055815:Young Adult
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