Fatal motor vehicle crashes in rural and urban areas: Decomposing rates into contributing factors

Injury Prevention

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 24-28

  Zwerling, C ^a   Peek Asa, C ^a   Whitten, P S ^a   Choi, S W ^a   Sprince, N L ^a   Jones, M P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; RURAL AREA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; URBAN AREA;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR VEHICLES; RURAL HEALTH; SEX DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES; URBAN HEALTH; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 13844264159     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.2004.005959     Document Type: Article

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