Differences in injury rates in child motor vehicle passengers in rural and urban areas in New South Wales, July 2000 to June 2004

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 483-488

  Du, Wei ^a   Finch, Caroline ^b   Hayen, Andrew ^a   Hatfield, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accidents; Children; Hospitalisation; Rural health; Traffic; Wounds and injuries

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BODY REGIONS; CALCULATION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC SAFETY; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEW SOUTH WALES; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 35448929508     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2007.00122.x     Document Type: Article

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