Methodological Challenges in Injury Epidemiology and Injury Prevention Research
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Injury epidemiology and publishing injury research
I n the Dictionary of Epidemiology, Professor Last offers the following definition: “Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations, and the application of this study to the control of health problems”.1 I similarly try to define injury epidemiology as the study of the distribution and determinants of injuries and safet...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annual Review of Public Health
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0163-7525
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.publhealth.16.1.381