SIDS prevention campaigns (Belgium)
Large education campaigns for health professionals and families on known sudden infant death risk factors, coordinated from the early 1990s by Belgium's National Infant Death Watch Tower with health associations and the Ministry of Health. A 60% fall in these deaths followed.
- Years
- 1993–now
- Country
- Belgium
- Topic
- Infant sleep
- Asks people to
- StopSubstitute
- Strategy
- Simple instruction
- Channel
- Clinical settingPrint
- Audience
- CliniciansParents
Evidence
ObservationalPositive
Authors report a 60% reduction in sudden infant deaths over the five years of campaigns; no comparison group.
Sponsor (who paid)
- Belgian Ministry of Health Foreign government, co-lead
- National Infant Death Watch Tower and health associations NGO, coordinator
Credits (who made it)
Not recorded yet.
Related campaigns
- Back to Sleep 1994–now
Sources
- [Sudden infant death. Reduction of the incidence of death in Belgium]. evaluation · 1998 · PMID 10230107
Research notes
Start year approximate ('since 5 years' in a 1998 paper). Found through OpenAlex (October 2026 sleep pass, see docs/sleep-campaigns-openalex.md). Findings paraphrased from abstracts; check the paper before quoting a number.
Record cases/belgium-sids-prevention.json, updated 2026-10-23· Link to this campaign