Child pedestrian injury rates: The importance of "exposure to risk" relating to socioeconomic and ethnic differences, in Auckland, New Zealand

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 162-165

  Roberts, Ian ^a,b   Norton, Robyn ^a   Taua, Binki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; PEDESTRIAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; SCHOOL CHILD; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILES; CHILD; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0029863478     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.50.2.162     Document Type: Article

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