In Australia are people born in other countries at higher risk of road trauma than locally born people?

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 375-381

  Dobson, Annette ^a   Smith, Nadine ^a   McFadden, Michael ^b   Walker, Michelle ^b   Hollingworth, Samantha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Australian Transport Safety Bureau   (Australia)

Author keywords

Drivers; Immigrants; Passengers; Pedestrians; Road trauma

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMMUNICATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FOOTBRIDGES; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

IMMIGRANTS; PASSENGERS; PEDESTRIANS; ROAD TRAUMA;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAR DRIVING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; MOTOR VEHICLE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; TIME; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WALKING;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AGED; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR VEHICLES; NEW SOUTH WALES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; WALKING;

EID: 1442359737     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-4575(03)00018-6     Document Type: Article

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