'Race' or place? Explaining ethnic variations in childhood pedestrian injury rates in London

Health and Place

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 34-42

  Steinbach, Rebecca ^a   Green, Judith ^a   Edwards, Phil ^a   Grundy, Chris ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Area deprivation; Children; Ethnicity; Pedestrians; Road environment; Wounds and Injuries

Indexed keywords

BLACK POPULATION; ETHNIC CONFLICT; ETHNIC MINORITY; ETHNICITY; PEDESTRIAN; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILD SAFETY; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; LANDSCAPE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEGRO; PEDESTRIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70350752298     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2009.08.002     Document Type: Article

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