The spatial and temporal dimensions of child pedestrian injury in Edmonton

Canadian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 447-451

  Yiannakoulias, Niko ^a   Smoyer Tomic, Karen E ^a   Hodgson, John ^a   Spady, Donald W ^a   Rowe, Brian H ^a   Voaklander, Donald C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CALCULATION; CANADA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; PEDESTRIAN; SCHOOL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME; TRAFFIC;

EID: 0036854654     PISSN: 00084263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03405036     Document Type: Article

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