Reducing pedestrian deaths and injuries due to road traffic injuries in Peru: Interventions that can work;Reduciendo el trauma y la mortalidad asociada a los accidentes de tránsito en los peatones en el Perú: Intervenciones que pueden funcionar

Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Publica

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 248-254

  Quistberg, D Alex ^a   Miranda, J Jaime ^b,c   Ebel, Beth ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Programa de Investigacion en Accidentes de Transito   (Peru)

^c UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accident prevention; Accidents; Legislation; Peru (source: MeSH NLM); Public health; Traffic

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955334988     PISSN: 17264634     EISSN: 17264634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s1726-46342010000200014     Document Type: Review

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