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Road traffic injuries in Mozambique
Injury Control and Safety Promotion, 2003Road traffic injuries affect the economy, health and quality of life of the people of Mozambique. Current road safety programmes are inadequate and inefficient given the magnitude of the problem. Data reported on road traffic crashes in the period 1990 to 2000 from the National Institute for Road Safety, the traffic police and the Central Hospital of ...
Francelina, Romão +9 more
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Sports Medicine, 1995
Off-road bicycles, commonly called 'mountain bikes', have become increasingly popular worldwide since their introduction in the western US in the late 1970s. This popularity is partly because these vehicles can be ridden on a wide variety of terrain which is not accessible to other types of bicycle.
R P, Pfeiffer, R L, Kronisch
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Off-road bicycles, commonly called 'mountain bikes', have become increasingly popular worldwide since their introduction in the western US in the late 1970s. This popularity is partly because these vehicles can be ridden on a wide variety of terrain which is not accessible to other types of bicycle.
R P, Pfeiffer, R L, Kronisch
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Road traffic injuries in Colombia
Injury Control and Safety Promotion, 2003Road traffic injuries are a leading public health problem in Colombia. Pedestrians are the most vulnerable road users, especially in the main urban centers of Bogotá, Medellin and Cali. Data analyzed in this report include official statistics from the National Police and the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences for 1996-2000, and ...
Deysi Yasmin, Rodríguez +2 more
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Road Traffic Injuries in Sharjah
International Journal of Epidemiology, 1981Hospital data of all patients seen as a result of road traffic accident injuries are presented for the year 1977. A follow-up study was carried out in December 1978 of those patients admitted with fractures of the skull and spine. The road traffic accident rate was 810 per 100 000 and the death rate was 25 per 100 000.
J M, Weddell, A, McDougall
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Road traffic injuries: a stocktaking
Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology, 2008Once we accept that road traffic injury control is a public health problem, and that we have an ethical responsibility to arrange for the safety of individuals, then it follows that health and medical professionals have to assume responsibility for participating in efforts to control this pandemic.
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Injury, 1970
Of the 4342 admissions of road accident cases to the Birmingham Accident Hospital in 1961, 1268 were admitted as in-patients, about half of these were short-stay cases and about one-quarter severe cases requiring intensive care. Of the in-patients, about one-quarter were pedestrians, and motor-cyclists ⋆ and car occupants accounted for one-half ...
W. Gissane, J. Bull, Barbara Roberts
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Of the 4342 admissions of road accident cases to the Birmingham Accident Hospital in 1961, 1268 were admitted as in-patients, about half of these were short-stay cases and about one-quarter severe cases requiring intensive care. Of the in-patients, about one-quarter were pedestrians, and motor-cyclists ⋆ and car occupants accounted for one-half ...
W. Gissane, J. Bull, Barbara Roberts
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Road traffic injuries in conflict areas
Injury Prevention, 2013The United Nations (UN) has proclaimed the years 2011–2020 as the Decade of Action for Road Safety.1 The related public health actions are of particular importance to those living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).2 These actions are more focused on highly populated LMICs where development needs have been leading to increased motorisation ...
Luis Manuel Rosa, Sosa, Junaid A, Bhatti
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Injuries Associated with Strenuous Road Marching
Military Medicine, 1992Injuries were recorded during and up to 12 days after a maximal effort road march. Light infantry soldiers (N = 335) carried a total load of 46 kg over a 20 km course. Twenty-four percent of the soldiers suffered one or more injuries, resulting in 44 days of limited duty. All injuries involved the lower extremities and/or the back.
J, Knapik +4 more
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Medical evaluation in road injury claims
The Lancet, 1997Letter ; SCOPUS: le.j ; info:eu-repo/semantics ...
Tomberg, Claude, Lucas, Pierre
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Injury profiles of road traffic deaths
Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2007The objective is to describe injuries of road traffic deaths in Barcelona and identify injury profiles by road user type, through a cross-sectional study including road traffic deaths for the period 1997-2004. The data source was the Institut de Medicina Legal de Catalunya.
Elena, Santamariña-Rubio +5 more
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