Factors associated with helmet use among motorcycle users in Karachi, Pakistan

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 384-387

  Khan, Imran ^a   Khan, Abdullah ^a   Aziz, Fatima ^a   Islam, Muhammad ^a   Shafqat, Saad ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Head injury; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; HEAD INJURY; HELMET; HUMAN; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MALE; MOTORCYCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAKISTAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC SAFETY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; INTERVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; URBAN POPULATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEAD PROTECTIVE DEVICES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MOTORCYCLES; PAKISTAN; RISK FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 42949123100     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00049.x     Document Type: Article

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