The injury fact book.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baker, Susan P. (Susan Pardee), author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wounds and injuries--United States--Statistics.

Wounds and injuries.

Accidents--United States--Statistics.

Accidents.

Mortality--United States--Statistics.

Mortality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 344 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This reference documents the nature and importance of the injury problem in the United States. For each of more than 60 causes of injury, data are presented by age, race, sex, geographic area, urban/rural residence, and per capita income. This second edition includes new chapters on injuries related to sports, work, aviation, and large trucks.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Chapter 1 Introduction""; ""Epidemiology and Prevention""; ""Organization of the Book""; ""Chapter 2 Injuries in Relation to Other Health Problems""; ""Injuries as a Cause of Death""; ""Trends in Mortality from Injuries and Other Causes""; ""Societal Costs""; ""Physician Contacts""; ""Hospital Admissions""; ""Chapter 3 Overview of Injury Mortality""; ""Age and Sex""; ""Race and Per Capita Income""; ""Urban/Rural and Geographic Differences""; ""Temporal Variation""; ""Historical Trends""; ""Chapter 4 Unintentional Injury""; ""Age and Sex""; ""Race and Per Capita Income""

""Urban/Rural and Geographic Differences"" ""Temporal Variation""; ""Historical Trends""; ""Chapter 5 Suicide""; ""Age and Sex""; ""Race and Per Capita Income""; ""Urban/Rural and Geographic Differences""; ""Temporal Variation""; ""Historical Trends""; ""Chapter 6 Homicide""; ""Age and Sex""; ""Race and Per Capita Income""; ""Urban/Rural and Geographic Differences""; ""Temporal Variation""; ""Historical Trends""; ""Chapter 7 Sports and Recreation""; ""Preventive Approaches""; ""Chapter 8 Aviation and Rail Transportation""; ""Aviation""; ""Characteristics of Crashes""; ""Age, Sex, and Race""

""Geographic Factors"" ""Season, Day, and Time""; ""Time Trends and Preventive Measures""; ""Railroads""; ""Age, Sex, and Race""; ""Season""; ""Historical Trends and Preventive Measures""; ""Chapter 9 Occupational Injury""; ""Nonfatal Injury""; ""Age and Sex""; ""Per Capita Income and Race""; ""Geographic Differences""; ""Temporal Variation""; ""Occupation and Industry""; ""Historical Trends and Preventive Measures""; ""Chapter 10 Falls""; ""Place of Injury""; ""Age and Sex""; ""Race and Per Capita Income""; ""Urban/Rural and Geographic Differences""; ""Historical Trends""

""Preventive Measures"" "Chapter 11 Firearms""; ""Age and Sex""; ""Race and Per Capita Income""; ""Urban/Rural and Geographic Differences""; ""Season and Type of Weapon""; ""Historical Trends""; ""Preventive Measures""; ""Chapter 12 Fires, Burns, and Lightning""; ""Housefires""; ""Clothing Ignition""; ""Scalds and Other Burns""; ""Lightning""; ""Chapter 13 Drowning""; ""Age and Sex""; ""Race and Per Capita Income""; ""Urban/Rural and Geographic Differences""; ""Temporal Variation""; ""Historical Trends""; ""Preventive Measures""; ""Chapter 14 Asphyxiation by Choking and Suffocation""

""Age and Sex"" ""Race and Per Capita Income""; ""Urban/Rural and Geographic Differences""; ""Season and Day of Week""; ""Historical Trends""; ""Preventive Measures""; ""Chapter 15 Poisoning""; ""Carbon Monoxide""; ""Opiates and Cocaine""; ""Other Drugs""; ""Alcohol""; ""Childhood Poisoning""; ""Chapter 16 Introduction to Motor Vehicle Crashes""; ""Age and Sex""; ""Race and Per Capita Income""; ""Urban/Rural and Geographic Differences""; ""Historical Trends""; ""Chapter 17 Motor Vehicle Occupants""; ""Age and Sex""; ""Urban/Rural and Geographic Differences""; ""Season, Day, and Time""; ""Types of Crashes""

Notes:

Previous edition: Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books, 1984.

Previously issued in print: 1991.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-770724-6

1-280-52445-6

9786610524457

0-19-974870-5

OCLC:

922969973