Onset of a declining trend in fatal motor vehicle crashes involving drunk-driving in japan

Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 195-204

  Nakahara, Shinji ^a   Katanoda, Kota ^b   Ichikawa, Masao ^c  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Japan; Mass media; Regression analysis; Traffic accidents

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CAR DRIVING; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POLICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLICE; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84879981284     PISSN: 09175040     EISSN: 13499092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2188/jea.JE20120134     Document Type: Article

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