Open AccessVulnerability of Female Drivers Involved in Motor Vehicle Crashes: An Analysis of US Population at Risk
Author(s) -
Dipan Bose,
María Seguí-Gómez,
Jeffrey Richard Crandall
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2011.300275
Subject(s) - crash , injury prevention , poison control , occupational safety and health , odds ratio , medicine , population , human factors and ergonomics , environmental health , suicide prevention , cohort , odds , demography , vulnerability (computing) , confidence interval , medical emergency , psychology , computer security , logistic regression , computer science , pathology , sociology , programming language
Motor vehicle trauma has been effectively reduced over the past decades; however, it is unclear whether the benefits are equally realized by the vehicle users of either sex. With increases in the number of female drivers involved in fatal crashes and similarity in driving patterns and risk behavior, we sought to evaluate if advances in occupant safety technology provide equal injury protection for drivers of either sex involved in a serious or fatal crash.