Racial differences in child safety restraint use in Tennessee

Injury Prevention

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 340-342

  Gunn, V L ^a   Phillippi, R M ^a   Cooper, W O ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EQUIPMENT; ETHNOLOGY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY; MALE; NEGRO; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEATBELT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT EQUIPMENT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEAT BELTS; TENNESSEE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 29244467964     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.2005.008706     Document Type: Article

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