Hours to hell and back: A social epidemiology of railway injury in a South African city, 1890-1995

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 75-83

  Matzopoulos, Richard ^a   Lerer, Leonard B ^a  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Injury; Railway history; Railways; Violence

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INJURY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RAILWAY; REVIEW; SOUTH AFRICA; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0031861915     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(98)00043-4     Document Type: Article

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