Explaining regional disparities in traffic mortality by decomposing conditional probabilities

Injury Prevention

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 84-90

  Goldstein, Gregory P ^a   Clark, David E ^a   Travis, Lori L ^a   Haskins, Amy E ^a  

^a MAINE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PROBABILITY; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; RISK-TAKING; RURAL POPULATION; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 79953288617     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: 14755785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.2010.029249     Document Type: Article

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