Risk perception, road behavior, and pedestrian injury among adolescent students in Kathmandu, Nepal

Injury Prevention

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 258-263

  Poudel Tandukar, Kalpana ^a   Nakahara, Shinji ^a   Ichikawa, Masao ^a   Poudel, Krishna C ^a   Jimba, Masamine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; NEPAL; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NEPAL; RISK FACTORS; SAFETY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 34848884877     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.2006.014662     Document Type: Article

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