Use of Child Safety Seats: Community-Wide Information and Enhanced Enforcement Campaigns

Task Force Finding*

Community-wide information and enhanced enforcement campaigns seek to promote use of safety seats through the use of mass media, mailings, child safety seat displays in public sites, and special enforcement strategies such as checkpoints, dedicated law enforcement officials, or alternative penalties. These campaigns target their information and activities to an entire community, usually geographic in nature.

Community-wide information and enhanced enforcement campaigns are recommended on the basis that they increase child safety seat use in a variety of populations and settings. No harms or other potential benefits were reported and no qualifying economic information was identified from the literature.

*From the following publication:

Task Force on Community Preventive Services. Recommendations to reduce injuries to motor vehicle occupants: increasing child safety seat use, increasing safety belt use, and reducing alcohol-impaired driving. [PDF - 78KB] Am J Prev Med 2001;21(4S):16–22.

Review completed: June 1998