Effectiveness of media and enforcement campaigns in increasing seat belt usage rates in a state with a secondary seat belt law

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 330-339

  Vasudevan, Vinod ^a   Nambisan, Shashi S ^b   Singh, Ashok K ^c   Pearl, Traci ^d  

^a University of Nevada Las Vegas   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^d Stewart Facility ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

CIOT campaign; Occupant protection; Safety; Seat belt

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLASSIFICATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; LAW; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PUBLIC OPINION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAFETY; SEATBELT; STATISTICS; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELEVISION; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LEGISLATION AS TOPIC; MALE; NEVADA; PUBLIC OPINION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIO; SAFETY; SEAT BELTS; TELEVISION;

EID: 70349264562     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389580902995190     Document Type: Article

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