Females do not have more injury road accidents on Friday the 13th

BMC Public Health

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Radun, Igor ^a   Summala, Heikki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; INJURY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE; CAR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; SEASON; SEX RATIO; SUPERSTITION;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE; AUTOMOBILES; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS; SEASONS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SUPERSTITIONS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33751380589     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-4-54     Document Type: Article

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