The economic cost of road traffic crashes in an urban setting

Injury Prevention

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 65-68

  Garcia Altes A ^a,b   Perez K ^a  

^a AGÈNCIA DE SALUT PÚBLICA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Institut Municipal de Salut Publica de Barcelona   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CITY; COST; COST OF ILLNESS; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SPAIN; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; CITIES; COST OF ILLNESS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; PUBLIC SECTOR; SPAIN;

EID: 33847299994     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.2006.012732     Document Type: Article

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