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The effect of safer play equipment on playground injury rates among school children

Andrew W. Howard, Colin MacArthur, Andrew Willan, Linda Rothman, Alexandra Moses-McKeag and Alison K. MacPherson

From the Department of Population Health Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children (Howard, MacArthur, Willan, Rothman, Moses-McKeag) and the School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (MacPherson), Toronto, Ont.



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  		Fig. 1: An unsafe (above) and a safe (right) playground. In the unsafe playground, the height a child may fall from equipment is greater than 1.5 m, the surface under the structure is bare earth and the surface on the hillside is concrete, even though it is an area where a child might fall. The equipment at this playground was removed and replaced.

 


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  		Figure 1. Continued.

 


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  		Fig. 2: Determining the intervention and nonintervention groups of schools. TDSB = Toronto District School Board.