HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS REGISTER		Author Keyword(s) Vol Page [Advanced]

This Article Full Text Full Text (PDF) Submit a response Alert me when this article is cited Alert me when eLetters are posted Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this link to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Add article to my folders Download to citation manager Request Permissions Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Wilson, N Articles by Thomson, G Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Wilson, N Articles by Thomson, G

The logic of comparing international terrorism with other causes of injury

Wellington School of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Otago, New Zealand

Correspondence to:
Dr N Wilson
Wellington School of Medicine & Health Sciences, PO Box 7343, Wellington, New Zealand; nwilson@actrix.gen.nz

Accepted 8 May 2006

Keywords: terrorism; road crash mortality

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

Our recent article in Injury Prevention comparing international terrorism mortality to road crash mortality¹ has stimulated questions around methodology and logic.²

To respond, firstly, we consider that there is a strong case for making comparisons between the burden of international terrorism and other causes of preventable mortality. Indeed, we and others have published such comparisons elsewhere in the peer reviewed literature (see studies cited in our previous papers^1,3,4). Such comparisons can inform the issues of societal risk perception, and guide more rational policy development processes, so as to optimize lives saved per level of government expenditure on prevention.

Regarding the sample frame and time period for our study, we strove to maximize methodologic rigour by using a standardized country grouping for which road crash mortality data are systematically collated and published (that is, OECD countries). Similarly, for the time period we used the latest 10 year period for which . . . [Full text of this article]