The 'WHO Safe Communities' model for the prevention of injury in whole populations

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn , Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Spinks, Anneliese ^a   Turner, Cathy ^b   Nixon, Jim ^b   McClure, Roderick J ^c  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

*Safety; Accident prevention; Australia epidemiology ; Humans; New Zealand epidemiology ; Program evaluation; Scandinavia epidemiology ; World Health Organization; Wounds and injuries epidemiology; *prevention control

Indexed keywords

CHILDHOOD INJURY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY; MORBIDITY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 70049115556     PISSN: 1469493X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004445.pub3     Document Type: Review

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