Injury epidemiology : research and control strategies / Leon S. Robertson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robertson, Leon S., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wounds and injuries--United States--Epidemiology.

Wounds and injuries.

Wounds and injuries--Epidemiology--Research--Methodology.

Wounds and Injuries--epidemiology--United States.

Epidemiologic Research Design--United States.

Medical Subjects:

Wounds and Injuries--epidemiology--United States.

Epidemiologic Research Design--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Using a progressive, step-by-step analysis, this text illustrates how to pose research questions and design the best research studies to answer those questions. This third edition includes new case studies.

Contents:

Injury and the role of epidemiology

Energy characteristics and control strategies

Research objectives and usable data

Injury severity

Injury statistics

National injury surveillance

Local injury surveillance

The use and abuse of causal analysis

Research designs and data analysis

Human factors

Evaluation of programs to change human factors voluntarily

Evaluation of laws and regulations directed at individual behavior

Evaluation of agent, vehicle and environmental modifications

Evaluation of post-injury treatment and rehabilitation

Injury epidemiology and economics

Summation of principles.

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-029534-1

0-19-773771-4

1-281-16380-5

9786611163808

0-19-974836-5

1-4356-1759-2

OCLC:

647681891