Determinants of within-country variation in traffic accident mortality in Italy: A geographical analysis

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages

  La Torre, Giuseppe ^a,b   Van Beeck, Ed ^b   Quaranta, Gianluigi ^a   Mannocci, Alice ^a   Ricciardi, Walter ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; DEMOGRAPHY; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; ITALY; MORTALITY; POLICY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TOPOGRAPHY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; URBAN POPULATION;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; DEMOGRAPHY; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; ITALY; MORTALITY; PUBLIC POLICY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK-TAKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 37849045583     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-6-49     Document Type: Article

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