Journal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Ŭihakhoe chi
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J Prev Med Public Health · May 2005
[An epidemiological study for child pedestrian traffic injuries that occurred in school-zone].
Pedestrian traffic injuries have been an important cause of childhood mortality and morbidity for decades. The aim of this study was to describe the epidemiological characteristics of child pedestrian traffic injuries that occurred during 2000 in one metropolitan city and its school-zones, and to determine the factors associated with those accidents. ⋯ Significant associations with pedestrian injury risk were identified in some of the modifiable environmental factors than in the educational factors.