Susan P. Baker, Brian O'Neill, Marvin J. Ginsburg, Guohua Li

The Injury Fact Book (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is a comprehensive but concise reference that documents the nature and importance of the injury problem in the United States. For each of more than sixty causes of injury, data are presented by age, race, sex, geographic area, urban/rural residence, and per capita income. The second edition includes new chapters on injuries related to sports, work, aviation, and large trucks. Also new are many analyses subdivided by four racial groups as well as age and sex, made possible by the use of mortality data from a seven year period. The updated analyses of time trends throughout the book document major reductions in death rates over the past decade. As a statistical compilation, the book offers users a quick reference to valuable detail, much of which would otherwise be inaccessible. It also discusses reasons for many of the extreme differences among groups of people in injury death rates and describes promising avenues to prevention. This accessible, readable reference will be valuable to public health personnel, physicians, epidemiologists, safety planners and policy makers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 1991
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199748709
• Artikelnr.: 54553244

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Injuries in relation to other health problems
Overview of injury mortality
Unintentional injury
Suicide
Homicide
Sports and recreation
Aviation and rail transportation
Occupational injury
Falls
Fireamrs
Fires, burns, and lightning
Drowning
Asphyxiation by choking and suffocation
Poisoning
Introduction to motor vehicle crashes
Motor vehicle occupants
Large trucks
Pedestrians
Motorcyclists
Bicyclists
Conclusion.