Citation

Sunshine J, Dwyer-Lindgren L, Chen A, Mokdad AH. Health Aff. (Hope) 2017; 36(4): 636-639.

Affiliation

Ali H. Mokdad is director of Middle Eastern initiatives and professor of global health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Project HOPE - The People-to-People Health Foundation)

DOI

10.1377/hlthaff.2016.1345

PMID

28373328

Abstract

Spikes in automobile fatalities in 2015 and 2016 have renewed discussions about automobile safety. We measured the prevalence of reported seat-belt compliance in every US county from 2002 to 2012 and found considerable variation.

Project HOPE—The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.

Language: en

Keywords

epidemiology trauma motor vehicle crash seat belt