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Description for Injury Research
Paperback. This book focuses on contemporary injury research methods. It covers recent developments in theories, methods, concepts, and techniques in injury research and includes quantitative, qualitative, experimental and observational methods from multiple disciplines. Editor(s): Li, Guohua; Baker, Susan P. Num Pages: 676 pages, 109 black & white illustrations, 70 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: MBG; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 178 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1280.
Injury is recognized as a major public health issue worldwide. In most countries, injury is the leading cause of death and disability for children and young adults age 1 to 39 years. Each year in the United States, injury claims about 170,000 lives and results in over 30 million emergency room visits and 2.5 million hospitalizations. Injury is medically defined as organ/tissue damages inflicted upon oneself or by an external agent either accidentally or deliberately. Injury encompasses the undesirable consequences of a wide array of events, such as motor vehicle crashes, poisoning, burns, falls, and drowning, medical error, adverse effects ... Read more
Injury is recognized as a major public health issue worldwide. In most countries, injury is the leading cause of death and disability for children and young adults age 1 to 39 years. Each year in the United States, injury claims about 170,000 lives and results in over 30 million emergency room visits and 2.5 million hospitalizations. Injury is medically defined as organ/tissue damages inflicted upon oneself or by an external agent either accidentally or deliberately. Injury encompasses the undesirable consequences of a wide array of events, such as motor vehicle crashes, poisoning, burns, falls, and drowning, medical error, adverse effects ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
750
Condition
New
Number of Pages
676
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781461483687
SKU
V9781461483687
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Ref
99-15
About N/A
Dr. Guohua Li is the Finster Professor of Epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and College of Physicians & Surgeons. A medical epidemiologist, Dr. Li is interested in research methodology and injury-related, population-based and policy-oriented studies that encompass innovative epidemiologic designs, novel biostatistical techniques, and complex data systems. Dr. Li has published over 130 manuscripts in ... Read more
Reviews for Injury Research
From the book reviews: “This is a multiauthored review of strategies for the investigation of injury and identification of treatment strategies. … Clinicians and basic scientists seeking to understand patterns of injury and potential treatment strategies are an appropriate audience for this book … . This is a worthwhile tool for committed investigators of this important public health problem.” ... Read more