The burden of fatal and non-fatal injury in rural India

Injury Prevention

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 232-237

  Cardona, M ^a   Joshi, R ^a   Ivers, R Q ^a   Iyengar, S ^b   Chow, C K ^a   Colman, S ^a   Ramakrishna, G ^c   Dandona, R ^a   Stevenson, M R ^a   Neal, B C ^a  

^a GEORGE INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^b Byrraju Foundation   (India)

^c CENTRE FOR CHRONIC DISEASE CONTROL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FALLING; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MOTORCYCLE; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTORCYCLES; RURAL HEALTH; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 49949110151     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.2007.018259     Document Type: Article

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