A risk-based method for modeling traffic fatalities

Risk Analysis

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 125-136

  Bhalla, Kavi ^a   Ezzati, Majid ^b   Mahal, Ajay ^b   Salomon, Joshua ^b   Reich, Michael ^b  

^a Harvard Initiative for Global Health   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Global health; Motor vehicles; Road traffic injuries; Traffic safety; Transportation growth

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL HEALTH; ROAD TRAFFIC INJURIES; TRAFFIC SAFETY; TRANSPORTATION GROWTH;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; DATA ACQUISITION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GROUND VEHICLES; RISK MANAGEMENT;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; COLLISION; DEVELOPING WORLD; HEALTH RISK; MODEL VALIDATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROAD TRANSPORT; ROADKILL; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY;

ARTICLE; DRIVER; FATALITY; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILES; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTOR VEHICLES; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SEAT BELTS; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 33947118754     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2006.00864.x     Document Type: Article

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