Author: Susan P. Baker
Edition: 2
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0195061942
The Injury Fact Book
This is a comprehensive but concise reference that documents the nature and importance of the injury problem in the United States. Medical books The Injury Fact Book. For each of more than sixty causes of injury, data are presented by age, race, sex, geographic area, urban/rural residence, and per capita income. The second edition includes new chapters on injuries related to sports, work, aviation, and large trucks. Also new are many analyses subdivided by four racial groups as well as age and sex, made possible by the use of mortality data from a seven year period. The updated analyses of time trends throughout the book document major reductions in death rates over the past decade Medical books The Injury Fact Book. Categories: Accidents->United States, Wounds and injuries->United States->Statistics, Mortality->United States. Contributors: Susan P. Baker - Author. Format: Hardcover
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Categories: Accidents->United States, Wounds and injuries->United States->Statistics, Mortality->United States. Contributors: Susan P. Baker - Author. Format: Hardcover
Categories: Accidents->United States, Wounds and injuries->United States->Statistics. Contributors: Susan P. Baker - Author. Format: Hardcover
Categories: Accidents->United States, Wounds and injuries->United States->Statistics. Contributors: Susan P. Baker - Author. Format: Hardcover
This concise reference documents the nature and importance of the injury problems in the United States. As a statistical compilation, the book offers users a quick reference to valuable detail, much of which would otherwise be inaccessible. It also discusses reasons for many of the extreme differences among groups of people in injury death rates and describes promising avenues to prevention.
Medical Book The Injury Fact Book
For each of more than sixty causes of injury, data are presented by age, race, sex, geographic area, urban/rural residence, and per capita income. The second edition includes new chapters on injuries related to sports, work, aviation, and large trucks. Also new are many analyses subdivided by four racial groups as well as age and sex, made possible by the use of mortality data from a seven year period. The updated analyses of time trends throughout the book document major reductions in death rates over the past decade. As a statistical compilation, the book offers users a quick reference to valuable detail, much of which would otherwise be inaccessible. It also discusses reasons for many of the extreme differences among groups of people in injury death rates and describes promising avenues to prevention. This accessible, readable reference will be valuable to public health personnel, physicians, epidemiologists, safety planners and policy makers.
