Promoting Child Pedestrian Injury Research

摘要

Schwebel's state-of-the-art article on pedestrian injuries in this issue of AJLM points to the important need to develop and implement more effective child pedestrian interventions. In 2009, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control developed a comprehensive research agenda that described research needs and priorities for 2009-2018.1 Pedestrian injury prevention was among the priorities. Pedestrian injury prevention research was identified as a priority area because pedestrians are a vulnerable population, and the burden of pedestrian injuries is large (43 498 pedestrians killed in the United States from 2000 to 2008).