Accident-related risk behaviors associated with motivations for motorcycle use in Iran: A country with very high traffic deaths

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 237-242

  Zamani Alavijeh, Fereshteh ^a   Niknami, Shamsaddin ^a   Bazargan, Mohsen ^b   Mohammadi, Eesa ^a   Montazeri, Ali ^c   Ahmadi, Fazlollah ^a   Ghofranipour, Fazlollah ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^c Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Research   (Iran)

Author keywords

Accidents; Iran; Motorcycle; Traffic injuries

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJURY; INTERVIEW; IRAN; MALE; MORTALITY; MOTIVATION; MOTORCYCLE; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; IRAN; MALE; MORTALITY; MOTIVATION; MOTORCYCLES; RISK-TAKING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 69149104169     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389580902822717     Document Type: Article

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