THE INJURY FACT BOOK

This book includes detailed information on many of the factors surrounding injuries--the man-made systems and products involved, the groups at greatest risk, and effective ways to protect people from injuries. The circumstances under which injuries occur, the etiologic agents, and the characteristics of the people involved are examined. Chapter 2 summarizes the importance of injuries in relation to other prominent health problems. Subsequent chapters describe injury mortality and, in cases where good population-based studies are available, nonfatal injuries. The analyses in Chapters 3-15 are primarily of injury deaths during 1977-1979, the most recent years for which detailed mortality data were available in mid-1983 for deaths other than those related to motor vehicles. Most of these data were collected by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Chapters 16-20 summarize data on deaths from motor vehicle-related injuries. Most of these detailed data were obtained from the U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Data from the 1980 census provided denominators for the rates throughout the book, except for trendline calculations which were based on interpolations between census years. The purpose of this book is to improve understanding of the nature and magnitude of the injury problem in the United States. Although it includes some discussion of ameliorative approaches, there is no comprehensive coverage of injury research, theory, or prevention, since these have been comprehensively discussed elsewhere. This book is a thorough documentation of the injury problem. Most of the information presented is new, the product of analyses not previously published in any form.

• Corporate Authors:

  Lexington Books

  4501 Forbes Blvd., Suite 200
  Lanham, MD  United States  20706
• Authors:
  • Baker, S P
  • O'Neill, B
  • Karpf, R S
• Publication Date: 1984

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 313 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cyclists; Data analysis; Fatalities; Hazards; Injuries; Mathematical analysis; Motorcyclists; Pedestrian vehicle crashes; Risk assessment; Statistics; Traffic crashes
• Uncontrolled Terms: Causes; Mortality rates; Motor vehicle accidents
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors; I84: Personal Injuries;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00387291
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-037 391
• Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jul 30 1984 12:00AM