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Injury patterns and seat belt effectiveness in pregnant motor vehicle occupants: evidence from US crash data, 1998–2021

open access: yesInjury Epidemiology
Motor vehicle collisions (MVCs) are the most common etiology of trauma and non-obstetric fetal death among pregnant individuals. Seat belts prevent MVC-related injuries; however, some pregnant individuals do not wear a seat belt due to discomfort and ...
Corina Espelien   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

IJCM_246A: Estimating the prevalence of seat belt usage in motor cars: A descriptive cross-sectional study in Mangalore

open access: yesIndian Journal of Community Medicine
Background: Every year 1.25 million people die of road traffic accidents. Several safety measures can be taken to prevent RTAs. The SDG 2030 set the target to halve the number of global death and injuries from road traffic accidents by the year 2020. The
Animesh Jain   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mandatory seat belt use. [PDF]

open access: yes
The purposes of this study were to review mandatory seat belt use laws as they have been used around the world, to forecast the impact of such a law in Virginia, and, if appropriate, to propose a mandatory seat belt law for inclusion in the Code of ...
Grey, Joseph   +1 more
core  

Seat Belt and Child Seat Use in Lipetskaya Oblast, Russia: Frequencies, Attitudes, and Perceptions

open access: yes, 2012
Objective: Despite the importance of understanding seat belt use patterns among drivers and passengers for the purpose of direct interventions or monitoring improvements, no study has described wearing rates for all seat positions in Russia.
Hatcher, Kristin W.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Changes in land‐snail communities and steppe environments in the lower Rhône valley during the Lateglacial–Holocene transition

open access: yesBoreas, EarlyView.
Land snail successions in the lower Rhône valley allow us to reconstruct the postglacial recolonization. From the Lateglacial period onwards, Mediterranean steppe communities appeared. The arrival of forest taxa was significantly delayed by aridity. The question of glacial refugia, both local and distant, primarily concerned Mediterranean species of ...
Frédéric Magnin
wiley   +1 more source

Seat Belt Use During Pregnancy in a Nigerian Community

open access: yes, 2008
This study was designed to determine compliance with car seat belt amongst antenatal patients and also identify the reasons for poor compliance with seat belt use.
CO Omolase   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Understanding Family Dynamics in Mixed‐Status Families: A Qualitative Interpretive Meta‐Synthesis

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the United States, mixed‐status families, where at least one member lacks legal immigration status, face persistent challenges related to deportation, which disrupt family stability, influence parental practices and impact children's identity formation.
Maryam Rafieifar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Facial trauma in the largest city in Latin America, São Paulo, 15 years after the enactment of the compulsory seat belt law

open access: yesClinics, 2010
Traffic accidents are a reality throughout Brazil. The face is one of the anatomic parts most affected by these accidents, especially when a seat belt is not used.
Tarley Eloy Pessoa de Barros   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comparison of traffic collision victims between older and younger drivers in South Korea: Epidemiologic characteristics, risk factors and types of collisions.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2019
ObjectiveThis study aimed to show the epidemiological characteristics and the difference in the risk factors and types of collision between older and younger drivers in Korea.MethodsWe collected data from the Emergency Department-based Injury In-depth ...
Jae Yun Ahn   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Seatbelt paths of the pregnant women sitting in the rear seat of a motor vehicle

open access: yesChinese Journal of Traumatology, 2017
Purpose: Seatbelt use during pregnancy is important to improve maternal and fetal survival after motor vehicle collisions. However, because the rear seatbelt of a motor vehicle tends to make contact with the neck, even if it is adequately used, some ...
Masahito Hitosugi   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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