Injury Prevention and Control (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Mohan, Dinesh; Tiwari, G. N.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Presenting a multifaceted examination of injury cause and prevention, this book focuses on transportation, workplace, sport and leisure, and domestic sectors. It contains presentations from the Fifth World Conference on Injury Prevention and Control and explores the legal, medical, environmental, safety and governmental issues. An eye-opening introduction to the field, the book covers topics such as trends in gerontological traffic safety research, demands to vehicle design and test procedures for injury control of vulnerable road users, adolescents' risk-taking behavior, and achievements in consumer product safety and the challenges of globalization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040215661
• Artikelnr.: 72524156

Autorenporträt

Dinesh Mohan, G.N. Tiwari

Inhaltsangabe

1. Dinesh Mohan
Injury Control and Safety Promotion: Ethics, Science and Practice. 2. William Haddon, Jr
On the Escape of Tigers: An Ecological Note. 3. Susan P. Baker
Where Have We Been and Where are We Going With Injury Control? 4. Brian O'Neill
Reducing Injury Losses: What Private Insurers Can and Cannot Do. 5. Shrikant I. Bangdiwala
Methodlogical Considerations in the Analysis of Injury Data: A Challenge for the Injury Research Community. 6. Ted R. Miller
Assessing the Burden of Injury: Progress and Pitfalls. 7. Geetam Tiwari
Traffic Flow and Safety: Need for New Models for Heterogeneous Traffic. 8. Murray McKay
Folklore and Science in Traffic Safety: Some New Directions. 9. Dietmar Otte
Demands to Vehicle Design and Test Procedures for Injury Control of Vulnerable Road Users in Traffic Accidents. 10. James Hedlund
Risky Business: Safety Regulations, Risk Compensation and Individual Behaviour. 11. Liisa Hakamies
Blomqvist
Aging and Transportation: Mobility and Safety? 12. Anne Tursz
Adolescents' Risk
taking Behaviour, Myth or Reality: Evidence from International Data. 13. James Nixon
Injury Prevention and Children's Rights. 14. Lief Svanstrom
Evidence
based Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion
State
of
the
art. 15. Mohamed Seedat
Community Psychology and Safety: A Psychospiritual Perspective. 16. A. K.(Dunu) Roy
Labour and Safety: Science, Technology and Society. 17. Wim Rogmans
Achievements in Consumer Product Safety and the Challenges of Globalization. 18. Mathew Varghese
Technologies, Therapies, Emotions and Empericism in Pre
hospital Care. 19. Etienne Krug
The Burden of Violence: An International Public Health Perpective. 20. Mark L. Rosenberg and James A. Mercy
A New Vision for Suicide Prevention: The Public Health Approach. 21. Emmanuel Rozental
Klinger
Barbarism and Solitude: Reflections on Globalization and Violence. O'Neill, Shrikant I. Bangdiwala, Ted R. Miller, Geetam Tiwari, Murray MacKay, Dietmar Otte, James Hedlund, Liisa Hakamies
Blomqvist, Anne Tursz, James Nixon, Leif Svanstrom, Modamed Seedat, A.K(Dunu) Roy, Wim Rogmans, Mathew Varghese, Etienne Krug, Mark L. Rosenberg and James A. Mercy, Emmauel Rozental
Klinger.