Incidence and Economic Burden of Injuries in the United States Pdf

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Edition: 1
Release: 2006-04-20
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 019517948X
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

Incidence and Economic Burden of Injuries in the United States pdf
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Injuries are one of the most serious public health problems facing the United States today. Through premature death, disability, medical cost and lost productivity, injuries impact the health and welfare of all Americans. Deaths only begin to tell the story. Although many injuries are minor, a large proportion result in fractures, amputations, burns, or other significant injuries that have far-reaching consequences. Now, for the first time in over 15 years, we have comprehensive estimates of the impact of these injuries in economic terms.

This book updates a landmark Report to Congress from 1989. Since the report, no undertaking has addressed the incidence and economic burden of injuries with more timely data, despite major changes in the fields of prevention, reporting, and surveillance. Since the mid-eighties, new safety technologies have been developed to prevent injuries or to decrease the severity of injuries, and new policies and laws have been enacted to promote inj Download Incidence and Economic Burden of Injuries in the United States for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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