Public beliefs about the preventability of unintentional injury deaths

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 455-465

  Girasek, Deborah C ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Drowning; Falls; Fires; Injury; Motor vehicle; Poisoning; Preventability beliefs

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0035384907     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-4575(00)00059-2     Document Type: Article

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