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ArticleBMJ paediatrics open2025

Road safety, street design and its impact on paediatric health in the UK.

Mat MacDonald, Alice Ferguson, Shivaji Shiva, Sarah Chaundler

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Article in BMJ paediatrics open, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Mat MacDonaldPICU, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham, UK matthewmacdonald1@nhs.net.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0003-2516-7704
Alice FergusonPlaying Out, Bristol, UK.
Shivaji ShivaVWV Law, Birmingham, UK.
Sarah ChaundlerSarah Chaundler, Birmingham, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article explores the impact of ever-increasing volumes of traffic on paediatric health and wellbeing. It examines potential street design solutions that may hold the key to reversing this trend and better protecting the potential for children to engage in outdoor play and independent socialisation. Across the UK, people concerned by the gradual erosion of such opportunities are coming together to campaign for such changes to make their streets safer and therefore healthier places for both themselves and their children. The roots of this movement, its successes so far and onward political progress towards this objective are also described.

Indexed as

Accidents, TrafficChild HealthEnvironment DesignSafetyChildHumansUnited KingdomAdolescent HealthEthicsHealth PolicyObesityQualitative research

Identifiers

PMID40262967
PMCPMC12015689

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