The effects of local and non-local traffic on child pedestrian safety: A spatial displacement of risk

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 80, Issue , 2013, Pages 96-104

  Yiannakoulias, Nikolaos ^a   Scott, Darren M ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Child pedestrian injury; Health inequality; Motor vehicle commuting; Spatial externality

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; CANADA; CHILD; DRIVER; EXOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MORALITY; MOTOR VEHICLE; NEIGHBORHOOD; PEDESTRIAN; RESPONSIBILITY; SAFETY; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WALKING;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; CANADA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WALKING;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84876462954     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.12.003     Document Type: Article

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