Young driver education programs that build resilience have potential to reduce road crashes

Pediatrics

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1287-1292

  Senserrick, Teresa ^a   Ivers, Rebecca ^a   Boufous, Soufiane ^a   Chen, Huei Yang ^a   Norton, Robyn ^a   Stevenson, Mark ^a   Van Beurden, Eric ^b   Zask, Avigdor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b North Coast Area Health Service New South Wales Government Department of Health   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cohort study; Driver education; Motor vehicle crashes; Resilience; Traffic offences

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVER; CAR DRIVING; COHORT ANALYSIS; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEW SOUTH WALES; SAFETY; TEACHING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350497712     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2009-0659     Document Type: Article

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