Seatbelt compliance and mortality in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries in comparison with other high-income countries

Annals of Saudi Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 347-350

  Abbas, Alaa ^a   Hefny, Ashraf ^a   Abu Zidan, Fikri ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEATBELT; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE EAST; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEAT BELTS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 79961153568     PISSN: 02564947     EISSN: 09754466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0256-4947.83208     Document Type: Article

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