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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817881103321

Autore

Robertson Leon S

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-19-029534-1

0-19-773771-4

1-281-16380-5

9786611163808

0-19-974836-5

1-4356-1759-2

Edizione

[3rd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

614.5/9

Soggetti

Wounds and injuries - United States - Epidemiology

Wounds and injuries - Epidemiology - Research - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2007.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.