Injury prevention behaviors: A report card for the nation, 1995

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 195-201

  Bolen, Julie C ^a   Sacks, Jeffrey J ^b   Bland, Shayne D ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

Accidents; Alcohol drinking; Attitudes; Bicycling; Fires; Knowledge; Practices; Risk taking; Seat belts; Traffic

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ARTICLE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HELMET; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SEATBELT;

EID: 0032866403     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/pmed.1999.0527     Document Type: Article

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