The Injury fact book / Susan P. Baker ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baker, Susan P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wounds and Injuries.

United States.

Accidents.

Mortality.

Medical Subjects:

Wounds and Injuries.

United States.

Accidents.

Mortality.

Physical Description:

xxi, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.

Summary:

This is a comprehensive but concise reference that documents the nature and importance of the injury problem in the United States. 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.

Notes:

Rev. ed. of: The injury fact book / Susan P. Baker, Brian O'Neill, Ronald S. Karpf.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Related Work:

Baker, Susan P. Injury fact book.

ISBN:

0195061942

OCLC:

23143900