Association between the number of home injury hazards and home injury

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 887-893

  Keall, Michael D ^a   Baker, Michael ^a   Howden Chapman, Philippa ^a   Cunningham, Malcolm ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b Building Research Association of New Zealand Limited   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Confounding; Home injury; Home injury hazard

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; HAZARDS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

HOME INJURY; HOME INJURY HAZARD;

RISK ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HOME ACCIDENT; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEW ZEALAND; NEWBORN; PILOT STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTS, HOME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; ODDS RATIO; PILOT PROJECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 42949160194     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2007.10.003     Document Type: Article

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