Table of contents

Original articles

• Reducing regional inequality in mortality from road traffic injuries through enforcement of the mandatory motorcycle helmet law in Taiwan (2 September, 2011) Free

  Tsung-Hsueh Lu, Ching-Huei Lai, Tung-Liang Chiang
• Hazard perception at high- and low-risk road sites: a pilot study of interurban roads in Pakistan and Cameroon (8 October, 2011)

  Junaid A Bhatti, Junaid A Razzak, Emmanuel Lagarde, Jöelle Sobngwi-Tambekou, Ahmadou Alioum, L Rachid Salmi
• Reduction in the exposure to being out-of-position among car occupants who used a sleeping device (8 September, 2011)

  Francisco J Lopez-Valdes, Marta Fernandez-Bolanos Martin, Ainhoa Alvarez Ruiz-Larrinaga, Maria Segui-Gomez
• Comparison of the characteristics of fire and non-fire households in the 2004–2005 survey of fire department-attended and unattended fires (4 July, 2011)

  Michael A Greene
• Factors associated with use of slip-resistant shoes in US limited-service restaurant workers (23 August, 2011)

  Santosh K Verma, Theodore K Courtney, Helen L Corns, Yueng-Hsiang Huang, David A Lombardi, Wen-Ruey Chang, Melanye J Brennan, Melissa J Perry
• Attitudes regarding ski helmet use among helmet wearers and non-wearers (22 September, 2011)

  Gerhard Ruedl, Martin Kopp, Gerhard Rumpold, Bernhard Holzner, Larissa Ledochowski, Martin Burtscher
• A decompositional analysis of the relative contribution of age, sex and methods of suicide to the changing patterns of suicide in Taipei City, 2004–2006 (25 October, 2011)

  Paul S F Yip, Eric D Caine, Raymond C L Kwok, Ying-Yeh Chen
• Characteristics of fatal abusive head trauma among children in the USA: 2003–2007: an application of the CDC operational case definition to national vital statistics data (20 October, 2011)

  Sharyn E Parks, Scott R Kegler, Joseph L Annest, James A Mercy