Public Health
Volume 123, Issue 5 , Pages 384-389 , May 2009

Injury incidence, healthcare consumption and avenues for prevention: a household survey on injury in rural Twiserkan, Iran

  • F. Rezapur-Shahkolai

      Affiliations

    • Division of Global Health, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    • Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Islamic Republic of Iran
    • National Public Health Management Centre, Tabriz, Islamic Republic of Iran
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Division of Global Health, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Nobels väg 9, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden. Tel.: +46 8 524 83379; fax: +46 8 311 590.
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  • M. Naghavi

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Washington University, Seattle, USA
    • ,
  • M. Vaez

      Affiliations

    • Section of Personal Injury Prevention, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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  • M. Shokouhi

      Affiliations

    • Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Islamic Republic of Iran
    • Division of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • L. Laflamme

      Affiliations

    • Division of Global Health, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Received 14 June 2008 ,Revised 5 March 2009 ,Accepted 18 March 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2009.03.010

Public Health
Volume 123, Issue 5 , Pages 384-389 , May 2009

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