Public Health

Study findings on public health are outlined in reports from University of New South Wales

Published in Medical Verdicts and Law Weekly, December 27th, 2007

In this recent report, researchers in Sydney, Australia conducted a study "To investigate whether the pattern of hospitalised injuries in injured child motor vehicle passengers involved in traffic crashes differs in rural and urban residents of New South Wales (NSW). This study compared injuries of hospitalised child motor vehicle passengers resident in rural areas with those from urban areas."

"The NSW Inpatient Statistics Collection (ISC), a population-based dataset, was used to select cases for the period of July 2000 to June 2004. The hospitalised injury rate was calculated according to urban/rural status using Poisson regression. Injury rate ratios (IRR) comparing...

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Source: Medical Verdicts and Law Weekly (2007-12-27)

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