TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - A wicked problem: early childhood safety in the dynamic, interactive environment of home
JO  - International journal of environmental research and public health
A1  - Simpson, Jean
A1  - Fougere, Geoff
A1  - McGee, Rob
SP  - 1647
EP  - 1664
VL  - 10
IS  - 5
N2  - Young children being injured at home is a perennial problem. When parents of young children and family workers discussed what influenced parents' perceptions and responses to child injury risk at home, both "upstream" and "downstream" causal factors were identified. Among the former, complex and interactive facets of society and contemporary living emerged as potentially critical features. The "wicked problems" model arose from the need to find resolutions for complex problems in multidimensional environments and it proved a useful analogy for child injury. Designing dynamic strategies to provide resolutions to childhood injury, may address our over-dependence on 'tame solutions' that only deal with physical cause-and-effect relationships and which cannot address the complex interactive contexts in which young children are often injured.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1661-7827
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph10051647
ID  - ref1
ER  -