Evidence-Based Road Safety Practice in India: Assessment of the Adequacy of Publicly Available Data in Meeting Requirements for Comprehensive Road Safety Data Systems

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 13, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages 17-23

  Barffour, Maxwell ^a   Gupta, Shivam ^a   Gururaj, Gopalkrishna ^b   Hyder, Adnan A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Data systems; India; Injury; Mortality; Road traffic crashes; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; SAFETY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; SAFETY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859502405     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2011.636780     Document Type: Review

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