Injury epidemiology : research and control strategies /

Main Author: Robertson, Leon S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Edition:3rd ed.
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Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=209613
Table of Contents:
  • Injury and the role of epidemiology
  • Energy characteristics and control strategies
  • Research objectives and usable data
  • Injury severity
  • Injury statistics
  • National injury surveillance
  • Local injury surveillance
  • The use and abuse of causal analysis
  • Research designs and data analysis
  • Human factors
  • Evaluation of programs to change human factors voluntarily
  • Evaluation of laws and regulations directed at individual behavior
  • Evaluation of agent, vehicle and environmental modifications
  • Evaluation of post-injury treatment and rehabilitation
  • Injury epidemiology and economics
  • Summation of principles.