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Traffic Injuries in Brisbane Hospitals over One Decade
Author(s) -
Jamieson Kenneth G.,
Kelly D'Arcy
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1974.tb06412.x
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , crash , legislation , injury prevention , poison control , occupational safety and health , medical emergency , sample (material) , human factors and ergonomics , suicide prevention , road traffic , demography , environmental health , transport engineering , pathology , law , engineering , physics , chemistry , chromatography , sociology , computer science , political science , optics , programming language
Three sample studies of the incidence and patterns of traffic injuries over the past ten years indicate a great rise in general incidence, but specific savings in some types of injury to various categories of participants. It is suggested that beneficial effects of both seat‐belt and crash‐helmet legislation are identifiable, but that the causes of other changes, most notobly the selective reduction of some types of injury and of inortnlity in pedestrians, are unknown.