Injury Prevention and Control - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748409599 ISBN 13: 9780748409594

Publisher: CRC Press, 2004

Synopsis

At least 5 million people die each year from injuries, and about half the deaths in the 10-24 age group are accountable to them. This is a major health problem for which a number of strategies for prevention and control can be developed. This book presents a series of the plenary and state-of-the-art presentations from the 5th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Control. There is a focus on transportation, workplace, sport and leisure, and domestic sectors, and an exploration of the legal, medical, environmental, safety and governmental issues which play a part in the subject. Practitioners and researchers in a variety of activities, including epidemiology and public health, occupational health and safety, ergonomics and product design, medicine, criminology, engineering and physical sciences, and the behavioural sciences, should find this a useful and challenging work.

About this title

About the Author

Dinesh Mohan, G.N. Tiwari

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0748409599
• ISBN 13: 9780748409594
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Mohan Dinesh, Tiwari G.N.