Effectiveness of community-based injury prevention. Long-term injury rate levels, changes, and trends for 14 Swedish WHO-designated Safe Communities

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 267-273

  Nilsen, Per ^a   Ekman, Robert ^b,c   Ekman, Diana Stark ^b   Ryen, Linda ^c   Lindqvist, Kent ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c National Centre for Learning from Incidents and Accidents (NCO)   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Community based; Injury prevention; Intervention effectiveness; WHO Safe Community

Indexed keywords

PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATIENT TREATMENT; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

INJURY PREVENTION; INTERVENTION EFFECTIVENESS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; INJURY; MULTICENTER STUDY; STATISTICS; SWEDEN; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; HUMANS; SWEDEN; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33845203134     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2006.07.007     Document Type: Article

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