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U.S. road fatalities per population : changes by age from 1958 to 2008.
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Abstract
- This report presents a time-series analysis of changes in road safety in the U.S. from<br />the public-health point of view. A 50-year period is examined, from 1958 to 2008. The<br />emphasis is on the changes by decades in fatalities per population across different age groups.<br />The main findings are as follows. First, from 1958 to 2008, the overall fatality rate per<br />population decreased by 40%. Second, the decrease in the rate was age dependent (with the<br />largest decreases for the youngest and the oldest, and smallest decreases for the middle-aged).<br />Third, the overall fatality rate increased from 1958 to 1968, but it decreased for each of the four<br />following decades. Fourth, the changes in the rate for each decade were age dependent. Fifth<br />the patterns of these age-dependent changes varied across the decades.<br />Examples of interventions that are likely to have age-dependent effects consistent with<br />the obtained differential age changes in the fatality rate are discussed. However, other<br />interventions are also likely to have relevant age-dependent effects on the fatality rate.
Details
- Database :
- OAIster
- Notes :
- Michigan, PDF, English
- Publication Type :
- Electronic Resource
- Accession number :
- edsoai.on1047993854
- Document Type :
- Electronic Resource