Changes in Motorcycle-Related Head Injury Deaths, Hospitalizations, and Hospital Charges Following Repeal of Pennsylvania’s Mandatory Motorcycle Helmet Law
| Autor: | Kristen J. Mertz, Harold B. Weiss |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Research and Practice
Databases Factual Legislation as Topic Poison control Mandatory Programs Helmet use Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health Head trauma Injury prevention medicine Craniocerebral Trauma Humans business.industry Head injury Accidents Traffic technology industry and agriculture Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Pennsylvania Repeal equipment and supplies medicine.disease Hospital Charges Hospitalization Motorcycles Law Head Protective Devices business human activities State Government |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Public Health. 98:1464-1467 |
| ISSN: | 1541-0048 0090-0036 |
| DOI: | 10.2105/ajph.2007.123299 |
| Popis: | To evaluate the 2003 repeal of Pennsylvania’s motorcycle helmet law, we assessed changes in helmet use and compared motorcycle-related head injuries with non-head injuries from 2001–2002 to 2004–2005. Helmet use among riders in crashes decreased from 82% to 58%. Head injury deaths increased 66%; nonhead injury deaths increased 25%. Motorcycle-related head injury hospitalizations increased 78% compared with 28% for nonhead injury hospitalizations. Helmet law repeals jeopardize motorcycle riders. Until repeals are reversed, states need voluntary strategies to increase helmet use. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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