| Description |
ix, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Injury Control and Safety Promotion: Ethics, Science and Practice / Dinesh Mohan -- 2. On the Escape of Tigers: An Ecological Note / William Haddon, Jr. -- 3. Where Have We Been and Where are We Going With Injury Control? / Susan P. Baker -- 4. Reducing Injury Losses: What Private Insurers Can and Cannot Do / Brian O'Neill -- 5. Methodological Considerations in the Analysis of Injury Data: A Challenge for the Injury Research Community / Shrikant I. Bangdiwala -- 6. Assessing the Burden of Injury: Progress and Pitfalls / Ted R. Miller -- 7. Traffic Flow and Safety: Need for New Models for Heterogeneous Traffic / Geetam Tiwari -- 8. Folkore and Science in Traffic Safety: Some New Directions / Murray Mackay -- 9. Demands to Vehicle Design and Test Procedures for Injury Control of Vulnerable Road Users in Traffic Accidents / Dietmar Otte -- 10. Risky Business: Safety Regulations, Risk Compensation and Individual Behaviour / James Hedlund -- 11. Aging and Transportation: Mobility or Safety? / Liisa Hakamies-Blomqvist -- 12. Adolescents' Risk-taking Behaviour, Myth or Reality: Evidence from International Data / Anne Tursz -- 13. Injury Prevention and Children's Rights / James Nixon -- 14. Evidence-based Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion: State-of-the-art / Leif Svanstrom -- 15. Community Psychology and Safety: A Psychospiritual Perspective / Mohamed Seedat -- 16. Labour and Safety: Science, Technology and Society / A. K. (Dunu) Roy -- 17. Achievements in Consumer Product Safety and the Challenges of Globalization / Wim Rogmans -- 18. Technologies, Therapies, Emotions and Empiricism in Pre-hospital Care / Mathew Varghese -- 19. The Burden of Violence. An International Public Health Perspective / Etienne Krug -- 20. A New Vision for Suicide Prevention: The Public Health Approach / Mark L. Rosenberg and James A. Mercy -- 21. Barbarism and Solitude: Reflections on Globalization and Violence / Emmanuel Rozental-Klinger |
| Notes |
"Published on the occasion of the Fifth World Conference on Injury Prevention and Control"--Preface |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Accidents -- Prevention -- Congresses.
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Industrial safety -- Congresses.
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Traffic safetyxcongresses
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Wounds and injuries -- Prevention -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Mohan, Dinesh.
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Tiwari, Geetam.
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World Conference on Injury Prevention and Control (5th : 2000)
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| LC no. |
00020584 |
| ISBN |
0748409599 (alk. paper) |
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