Search for dissertations about: "Fatal road traffic injuries"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 swedish dissertations containing the words Fatal road traffic injuries.
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1. Occupant casualties in bus and coach traffic : injury and crash mechanisms
Abstract : Background: The relevance of conducting this thesis is evident by the fact that bus and coach casualties have been “stubbornly stable” in Europe recent years and a need for investigating if a similar trend could be found in Sweden is therefore obvious. It was also important to add new knowledge to the bus and coach research in Sweden, since many areas were scarcely addressed. READ MORE
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2. Valuing Reductions in the Risk of Traffic Accidents Based on Empirical Studies in Sweden
Abstract : At the beginning of the 1990s the Swedish National Road Administration (SNRA) adopted the willingness to pay (WTP) approach for estimating the benefits of safety improvements. However, since then there have been discussions about how to find the most valid and reliable empirical methods to conduct WTP studies. READ MORE
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3. Toward safety promotion among road users : epidemiology and prevention of road traffic injuries in Iran
Abstract : Road traffic injuries (RTIs) are a major public health problem. Iran has one of the highest RTI mortality and morbidity rates in the world. READ MORE
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4. Risk factors of road traffic injuries among motorcyclists in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Abstract : Background: Commercial motorcycling has become an alternative mode of transport and employment in low and middle-income countries, contributing to road traffic injuries and deaths. Still, there is limited context-specific knowledge regarding risk factors associated with commercial motorcycling. READ MORE
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5. An epidemiological study of non-fatal injuries in a Swedish county
Abstract : The main objective of this thesis is to describe the epidemiological injury pattern (including both oral and bodily injuries) in a defined Swedish population. Analysis is performed in three steps: a general overview; a focus on oral and bodily injuries, Paper I, and on the most exposed age groups for tooth injuries (children and adolescents), Paper II; and exemplifying situational analyses of bicycle (Paper III) and pedestrian injuries (Paper IV), and school injuries Paper V. READ MORE