Raised speed limits, case fatality and road deaths: A six year follow-up using ARIMA models

Injury Prevention

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 156-161

  Friedman, Lee S ^a,b   Barach, Paul ^c   Richter, Elihu D ^d  

^a Social Policy Research Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAR; CAR DRIVING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MORTALITY; POLICY; SOCIAL MARKETING; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; AUTOMOBILES; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL MARKETING; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34347211422     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.2006.014027     Document Type: Article

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