Accidents : Risk Factors, Health Outcomes, and Safety Measures.

Intro -- ACCIDENTS: RISK FACTORS, HEALTH OUTCOMES AND SAFETY MEASURES -- ACCIDENTS: RISK FACTORS, HEALTH OUTCOMES AND SAFETY MEASURES -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: PROMOTING SAFE TRANSIT: ANALYZING BUS ACCIDENT PATTERNS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. DATA -- 3. METHODOLOGY -- 4. RESULTS -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2: ELDERLY PEDESTRIANS IN DENSE URBAN AREAS: CASE STUDY OF PARIS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. CONTEXT -- 2. METHODOLOGY -- 2.1. Study of the Pedestrian Accident Rate in Paris -- 2.2. Studies of Accidents Involving Elderly Pedestrians in Paris -- 2.3. Study of How Elderly Pedestrians in Paris Perceive Risk -- 2.4. Study of Elderly Pedestrian Mobility in Paris -- 3. RESULTS -- 3.1. Being an Elderly Pedestrian in Paris: Real Risk -- 3.2. Being an Elderly Pedestrian in Paris: Perceived Risk -- 3.3. Being an Elderly Pedestrian in Paris: Needs and Difficulties -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3: QUANTIFYING THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS ON ACCIDENT AND INJURIES RISK: A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN MOTORCYCLISTS AND CAR DRIVERS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. METHOD -- 2.1. Sample -- 2.2. Data Analysis -- 3. RESULTS -- 3.1. Odds Ratio for All Accidents -- 3.2. Odds Ratio for Accidents with Personal Injury -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4: VERY SERIOUSLY INJURED:IN-DEPTH INVESTIGATION OF ROAD ACCIDENT CHARACTERISTICS AND MEDICAL CONSEQUENCES IN GERMANY -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1. Medical Definition of Injury Severity -- 2. STUDIES -- 2.1. Annual Number of Very Seriously Injured Road Casualties -- 2.2. Annual trend of Very Seriously Injured Road Casualties -- 2.3. Transport Modes and Injury Patterns -- CONCLUSION AND OUTLOOK -- REFERENCES.

Chapter 5: ASSESSING THE SAFETY CLIMATE IN OPERATING ROOMS: THE CASE OF HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS IN MEXICO -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. ORGANIZATIONAL ACCIDENTS -- 3. SAFETY CULTURE AND SAFETY CLIMATE -- 3.1. Safety Culture vs. Safety Climate -- 4. THE CASE STUDY: THE FOUR MEXICAN HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS -- 5. METHODS -- 5.1. Materials -- 5.2. Participants -- 5.3. Data Analysis -- 6. RESULTS -- 7. LIMITATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6: KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES OF MEDICAL STUDENTS TOWARD ACCIDENTAL BLOOD EXPOSURE -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. METHOD -- 3. RESULTS -- 4. DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7: OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT PATTERNS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. MATERIAL -- 1.1. Definition of the Study -- 1.2. Definition of the Records -- 1.3. Definition of Variables -- 2. METHODOLOGY -- 2.1. Analysis of Dimensionless Information -- 2.2. Analysis of the One-Dimensional Information -- 2.3. Analysis of the Two-Dimensional Information -- 3. ACCIDENT RATE PATTERNS -- 3.1. Patterns for the Total Value -- 3.2. Marginal Patterns -- 3.3. Matrix Patterns -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8: OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENTS: PREVALENCE, RISK FACTORS AND HEALTH OUTCOMES -- ABSTRACT -- 1. PREVALENCE -- 2. RISK FACTORS -- 2.1. Gender -- 2.2. Age -- 2.3. Experience -- 2.4. Marital Status -- 2.5. Education -- 2.6. Handedness -- 2.7. Migration -- 2.8. Temporary Work -- 2.9. Size of Company -- 2.10. Subcontracting -- 2.11. Industry -- 3. HEALTH OUTCOMES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9: A MACRO-ANALYSIS OF IMPACTS OF SAFETY INTERVENTIONS ON ROAD SAFETY DEVELOPMENTS IN A COUNTRY -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. THE STUDY'S FRAMEWORK -- 2. MAPPING SAFETY INTERVENTIONS -- 3. DATA SERIES DEFINED FOR THE ANALYSES -- 4. THE MODELS DEVELOPED -- 4.1. Methods.

4.2. Results of Fitting Broken-Line Regression Models -- 4.3. Results of Fitting Structural Time-Series Models -- 4.4. Summary of Findings of Both Methods -- CONCLUSION AND DISCUSSION -- 5.1. Influential Road Safety Interventions -- 5.2. Discussion -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 10: ARE SAFETY BASED INCENTIVES IN PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS (PPPS) EFFECTIVE AT IMPROVING SAFETY RATIOS? THE CASE OF SPAIN -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. ANALYSIS OF EXPERIENCES IN THE INTRODUCTIONOF ROAD SAFETY INCENTIVES IN EUROPE -- 3. CHARACTERISTICS OF MOTORWAYS IN SPAIN -- 4. MODELS THAT EXPLAIN ROAD SAFETY: A LITERATURE REVIEW -- 5. DATA FOR THE CASE OF SPAIN -- 6. METHODOLOGY AND RESULTS -- CONCLUSION AND FUTURE RESEARCH -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 11: THE ROLE OF ROADSIDE SAFETY CRITERIA IN ACCIDENT REDUCTION AND INJURY SEVERITY MITIGATION -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. CURRENT PRACTICE -- 2.1. Forgiving Roadside and Clear Zone Concepts -- 2.2. Road Restraint Systems -- 3. FEATURES OF THE METHOD -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Accident Model -- 3.3. Roadside Safety Measures -- 3.4. Evaluation Model -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 12: STUDY OF VISIBILITY AND THE POSITION OF BARRIER LINES ON TWO-WAY HIGHWAYS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THEORETICAL FOUNDATION -- 2.1. Stopping Sight Distance -- 2.2. Visibility versus Rigid Barriers -- 3. VISUALIZATION, MODELING, AND ANALYSIS OF VISIBILITY -- 4. METHODOLOGY -- 4.1. Hypotheses -- 4.2. Structuring the Simulation Process -- 4. RESULTS OF SIMULATIONS -- 6. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS -- 7. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 13: PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENTS ON RURAL ROADS: EXPLORING THE PHENOMENON AND EXAMINATION OF REDUCTION POTENTIAL OF ROAD SAFETY MEASURES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. A LITERATURE SURVEY ON PEDESTRIAN INJURY ON RURAL ROADS.

2. DETAILED ANALYSIS OF PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENTSON RURAL ROADS IN ISRAEL -- 2.1. The Data Collection -- 2.2. Examination of the Match between the "Sample" of Accidents Collectedfrom the Police Archives and the "Entire Accident Population -- 2.3. Identifying Leading Accident Patterns -- 3. FIELD SURVEYS OF PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENT SITES ON RURAL ROADS -- 3.1. Selecting Sites for the Surveys -- 3.2. Results of Field Surveys -- 4. BENEFIT-COST ASSESSMENT OF MEASURES FOR IMPROVING PEDESTRIAN SAFETY ON RURAL ROADS -- 4.1. Method -- 4.2. Results -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

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