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Emergency Responder Injuries and Fatalities : An Analysis of Surveillance Data
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Houser, Ari.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emergency medical personnel--Wounds and injuries.
- Accidents.
- Allied Health Personnel.
- Occupational Groups.
- Vital Statistics.
- Disease.
- Social Control, Formal.
- Mortality.
- Police.
- Wounds and Injuries.
- Emergency Medical Technicians.
- Accidents, Occupational.
- Data Collection.
- Demography.
- Health Personnel.
- Sociology.
- Persons.
- Public Health.
- Names.
- Information Science.
- Social Sciences.
- Population Characteristics.
- Environment and Public Health.
- Epidemiologic Methods.
- Epidemiologic Measurements.
- Health Care Facilities Workforce and Services.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Investigative Techniques.
- Medical Subjects:
- Accidents.
- Allied Health Personnel.
- Occupational Groups.
- Vital Statistics.
- Disease.
- Social Control, Formal.
- Mortality.
- Police.
- Wounds and Injuries.
- Emergency Medical Technicians.
- Accidents, Occupational.
- Data Collection.
- Demography.
- Health Personnel.
- Sociology.
- Persons.
- Public Health.
- Names.
- Information Science.
- Social Sciences.
- Population Characteristics.
- Environment and Public Health.
- Epidemiologic Methods.
- Epidemiologic Measurements.
- Health Care Facilities Workforce and Services.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Investigative Techniques.
- Local Subjects:
- Emergency medical personnel--Wounds and injuries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (114 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica : RAND Corporation, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Collects and synthesizes available data on casualties experienced by the emergency responder population. The authors examined data separately for firefighters, police officers, and emergency medical technicians. These data can provide a route for identifying combinations of kinds and causes of injury, body parts involved, and types of responder activity where injury reduction efforts might be most effectively applied.
- Contents:
- Preliminaries; Preface; Table of Contents; Figures; Tables; Acronyms; Executive Summary; 1. Introduction; 2. The Emergency Responder Population; 3. Available Surveillance Data Sources to Define the Occupational Injury and Disease Characteristics of the Emergency Responder; 4. Observations from the Data Regarding Risks Faced by Emergency Responders; 5. Conclusions; References; Appendices
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781598753523
- 1598753525
- OCLC:
- 475945111
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