Injuries From Traffic Crashes: Meeting the Challenge
Annual Review of Public HealthPublished 1 May 1993Open access
John D. Graham
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The report concludes on two notes of optimism: the consumer's increasing interest in vehicle safety, which is triggering competitive market forces on behalf of safety, and the public health community's increasing commitment to injury control, which promises to return traffic injuries to the governmental agenda, where it was briefly in the 1960s.
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