'One million people die on the world's roads every year' - Are they any hopes of alleviation?

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 482-

  Walker, Alexander R P ^a   Walker, Betty F ^a   Wadee, Ahmed A ^b  

^a NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; BREATH ANALYSIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EL SALVADOR; EUROPEAN UNION; FATALITY; HUMAN; JAPAN; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOTE; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC MEDICINE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ALCOHOL DRINKING; HUMANS;

EID: 23044451431     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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