Injury Prevention: An International Perspective: Epidemiology, Surveillance, and Policy

by Gordon Smith, Peter Barss, Susan P. Baker, et al.

Book Overview

Throughout the world, injuries are the leading cause of death for young adults, adolescents, and children. Injury death and hospitalization are also high among the elderly. With the improved prevention and treatment of infectious and degenerative diseases, the importance of injuries as a debilitating factor has rapidly increased around the world. Better living conditions have decreased the number of some types of injuries--such as drownings and burns--but...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195119827
• ISBN13: 9780195119824
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.4" x 10.2"