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Showing 1 to 20 of 223 for “"fatality"”.
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Descriptive epidemiology of 2007 homebuilt aircraft accidents and accident and fatality rates
… were used to compare homebuilt accidents and fatality rates with non-homebuilt aircraft rates. Human and mechanical errors were implicated in homebuilt accidents similar to non-homebuilt general aviation accidents. Homebuilt accident rates per 100,000 flight hours are significantly higher than …
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Domestic violence fatality review teams: collaborative efforts to prevent intimate partner femicide
… of intimate partner femicides, domestic violence fatality review teams have emerged in the North America as collaborative settings aimed at understanding and preventing them. Although domestic violence fatality review teams have been developed rapidly and widely, little is known about the nature …
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Analysis of Union Safety: Determining Relationships between Union Membership and Injury and Fatality Rates
<p>In under two centuries the labor union transformed the American workplace, improving wages, benefits, employee engagement, and safety. In more recent years, the government and other organizations have caught up in focusing on safety. Countless studies have been conducted and determined that …
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Road traffic crash fatalities: An examination of national fatality rates and factors associated with the variation in fatality rates between nations with reference to the World Health Organisation Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011 - 2020
… has published baseline road traffic crash (RTC) fatality data for all member nations. The WHO has also suggested five Pillars of Action, mechanisms that may be instigated at the national level within the decade to halt or reduce the national RTC fatality toll. This thesis demonstrates that the …
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Describing the Roadway and Driver Characteristics of Fatality Motor Vehicle Crashes in Travis County Texas in 2008
… and driver characteristics of motor vehicle fatality crashes in Travis County Texas in 2008. By analyzing existing data of these characteristics from the Fatal Accident Reporting System (FARS) database, the results from Travis County will be compared to Texas’ ten most populated counties, the …
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Appraising The Current Status Of The National Institute For Occupational Safety And Health's Fatality Assessment Control Evaluation Program
… on why workplace deaths occur; NIOSH enacted the Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) program in 1982. Since its inception, the NIOSH FACE program has used workplace death investigations as an important methodology for educating the public about the hazards associated with simply …
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Road accident analysis in Yemen: the identification of shortcomings in road accident data, data adjustment, cost and development of road fatality model
The true extent of the road accident problem in Yemen is questionable. Some agencies and citizens believe that the safety situation in Yemen is very critical while others disagree with this belief. Both sides however, agree that the road accident problem in Yemen is such that it requires …
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Differences in COVID-19 Fatality Risk Among Racial and Ethnic Groups: A Secondary Data Analysis of Electronic Health Records in the TriNetX Platform
COVID-19 fatality risk changed greatly over the course of the pandemic. Few studies have explored how risk and vulnerability compounded COVID-19 health outcomes throughout the pandemic. In this study, the aims were to explore the relationship between fatality risk and racial/ethnic background in …
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Unpacking road safety at a district level - the case of Cape Town, South Africa
… level than that of cities. With road fatality levels remaining high within the country, this study aims to perform this disaggregated study for Cape Town. In this study, Cape Town fatality data for the 2011-2015 period was analysed on a 2013 Traffic Analysis Zone level, defined in this …
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Child malnutrition mortality at St Barnabas Hospital is high - is it due to practices and attitudes of staff?: a study in a rural district hospital
The case fatality rate for malnutrition at St Barnabas Hospital over the past years has been around 38%. The rates in other district hospitals in the Eastern Cape province were found to be in excess of 30%. In June 2000, the Eastern Cape Department of Health introduced a protocol for in-patient …
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An economic model of highway fatalities
… their resources in order to reduce the highway fatality rate? A highway fatality model was developed to determine which factor has the greatest positive or negative impact on the highway fatality rate. A cross-section of data from states for 1984 and 1985 was collected for the following …
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The Crash Injury Risk to Rear Seated Passenger Vehicle Occupants
… have been at a lower risk of serious injury and fatality in motor vehicle crashes than their front seat counterparts. However, many passive safety advancements that have occurred over the past few decades such as advanced airbag and seatbelt technology primarily benefit occupants of the front …
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Assessment of Multiple Third-Party Risk Models Incorporating Uncertainty Quantification and Sensitivity Analysis
… produce statistically equivalent expected fatality rates when inputs are aligned, while GRASP exhibits non-equivalent behavior due to its difference in population consideration and sampling, discrete lethal crash area structure, and differing treatments of exposure. Uncertainty …
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Trend Analysis of Automobile Collision Amongst 15-19 year olds in Virginia, 2000-2004
… hospitalization rates, mortality rates, and case-fatality rates, for both males and females combined. The different Tables illustrate the extent and the impact of automobile collision in terms of demographics and characteristics of hospitalizations, types of hospitalizations, hospitalization …
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Understanding Wind Energy Impacts on Bats and Testing Reduction Strategies in South Texas
… region. For my first study I estimated bat fatality rates at Los Vientos using a novel fatality estimator and reported a moderate to high fatality rate, in which Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) were the most impacted species. Based on my results, I recommend bat impact …
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Responding to the Pandemic: A Multicountry Study on Social-Political Factors and Health Outcomes of COVID-19
… the relationship between democracy and case fatality rate of COVID-19 by controlling for the effect of age, comorbidity, health expenditure, healthcare workforce, and population density; and (3) identify the trajectory pattern cases peak days, deaths peak days, and peak periods.</p> …
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Regional seismic risk of railway system including derailment consequences
… The consequence model estimates the casualty and fatality rates for passengers as a function of train speed and includes two sub-models. The first sub-model, which is for the case when the train remains in its own track after derailment, was developed using historical accident data. The casualty …
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Community-based therapeutic care: treating severe acute malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa
… million preventable child deaths each year. Case fatality rates in hospitals treating SAM remain at 20-30%, and coverage of those affected remains low. Training and support to improve centre-based management can reduce case fatality rates. However, an exclusive inpatient approach does not consider …
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The Epidemiology and Management of Ischaemic Heart Disease in New Zealand: A Series of National Routine Health Data-Linkage Studies
… statin use, acute revascularisation and case fatality in people hospitalised with acute coronary syndromes (ACS). The latter five studies were focused on all hospitalised and fatal IHD, examining pre-hospital IHD case fatality and contemporary trends in IHD hospitalisations, deaths, incidence …
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Evaluation of safety benefits of the road cross section upgrading on the Okahandja Karibib road in Namibia
… and Namibian road safety status. The global road fatality rate is 17.7 deaths per 100 000 population, and the Africa continent has 26.6 deaths per 100 000 population (WHO, 2015, page 6). Namibia, in 2016, had around 34 deaths per 100 000 population (MVA, 2016, page 5). Namibia, with a small …
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