Revisiting Current Strategies for Primary Prevention of Motorcycle Collisions in Jamaica

ABSTRACT: Motorcycle Road Traffic Collisions place a heavy burden on emergency medical services in Jamaica. We explore the existing strategies and legislative policies that may prevent or reduce the severity of these injuries in Jamaica. This is an important aspect of health care as it may minimize...

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Autores principales: Cawich, Shamir O, Harding, Hyacinth E, Evans, Necia R, Crandon, Ivor W, Martin, Allie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences 2010
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Injury & Violence
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3134890/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21483199
http://dx.doi.org/10.5249/jivr.v2i1.13
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author Cawich, Shamir O
Harding, Hyacinth E
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Crandon, Ivor W
Martin, Allie
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description ABSTRACT: Motorcycle Road Traffic Collisions place a heavy burden on emergency medical services in Jamaica. We explore the existing strategies and legislative policies that may prevent or reduce the severity of these injuries in Jamaica. This is an important aspect of health care as it may minimize the impact of these preventable injuries on the limited resources of the health services.
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spelling pubmed-31348902011-09-20 Revisiting Current Strategies for Primary Prevention of Motorcycle Collisions in Jamaica Cawich, Shamir O Harding, Hyacinth E Evans, Necia R Crandon, Ivor W Martin, Allie J Inj Violence Res Injury & Violence ABSTRACT: Motorcycle Road Traffic Collisions place a heavy burden on emergency medical services in Jamaica. We explore the existing strategies and legislative policies that may prevent or reduce the severity of these injuries in Jamaica. This is an important aspect of health care as it may minimize the impact of these preventable injuries on the limited resources of the health services. Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences 2010-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3134890/ /pubmed/21483199 http://dx.doi.org/10.5249/jivr.v2i1.13 Text en Copyright © 2010, KUMS http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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