Transportation, Traffic Safety and Health
Subtitle: The New Mobility
By: edited by Hans Holst, Åke Nygren, Roland Thord
Contributors: Nygren, Åke; Thord, Roland
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9783662034118; 9783662034095
Subjects: Emergency medicine; Engineering; Economics; Trauma; Regional economics
Other titles: First International Conference, Göteborg, Sweden, 1995
Description: The modern society is to a great extent characterized by a tremendous growth in transportation. The freedom to move is a central and fundamental human value. Transportation together with communication are the most important factors for increasing the level of mobility and human interaction. As mobility has increased an associated growth in health problems has been witnessed. The number of fatalities and serious injuries caused by road traffic is unacceptable. Great efforts have been made to reduce these figures and a downward trend has been visible in most countries. Still, a lot remains to be done. This collection of contributions by scientists and administrators presents some of the latest findings in the area of mobility and its relation to medical treatment, rehabilitation, public health and prevention.
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Table of contents: title: Preface; title: H. von Holst, A. Nygren, R. Thord: Introduction; title: A.E. Andersson: The New Mobility; title: R. Martinez: Traffic Safety as a Health Issue; title: C. Tingvall: The Zero Vision; title: H. von Holst: Prevention and Integration of Knowledge in Neurotraumatic Injuries; title: K. Rumar: The Swedish National Road Safety Programme; title: L. Sachs: Prevention in the Context of Culture; title: E. von Hirsch: Socio-Cultural Considerations in Devising Traffic Safety Strategies; title: K. Johansson: Traffic Safety in an Aging Society; title: T.R. Lakshmanan: The Evolution of Transport Safety in the US; title: H. Norin: Traffic Safety and the Vehicle; title: L. Carroll: Psychological Factors in Traffic Safety; title: A. Nygren: D. Cassidy, Whiplash: an important Agenda for the Future; title: Contributors to this Volume.