The Injury Fact Book - Hardcover

Baker, Susan P.; O'Neill, Brian; Ginsburg, Marvin J.; Guohua Li

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195061942 ISBN 13: 9780195061949

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1991

Synopsis

This is a comprehensive but concise reference that documents the nature and importance of the injury problem in the United States. For each of more than sixty causes of injury, data are presented by age, race, sex, geographic area, urban/rural residence, and per capita income. The second edition includes new chapters on injuries related to sports, work, aviation, and large trucks. Also new are many analyses subdivided by four racial groups as well as age and sex, made possible by the use of mortality data from a seven year period. The updated analyses of time trends throughout the book document major reductions in death rates over the past decade. As a statistical compilation, the book offers users a quick reference to valuable detail, much of which would otherwise be inaccessible. It also discusses reasons for many of the extreme differences among groups of people in injury death rates and describes promising avenues to prevention. This accessible, readable reference will be valuable to public health personnel, physicians, epidemiologists, safety planners and policy makers.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This concise reference documents the nature and importance of the injury problems in the United States. As a statistical compilation, the book offers users a quick reference to valuable detail, much of which would otherwise be inaccessible. It also discusses reasons for many of the extreme differences among groups of people in injury death rates and describes promising avenues to prevention.

About the Author:

Susan P. Baker is at Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0195061942
• ISBN 13: 9780195061949
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 368