The meaning of prevention has changed as new applications of the concept have appeared.
Ideas presented in eleven different conceptual frameworks are compared. Identification of …

Injurious falls among the elderly are an increasing public-health problem in Sweden. One
group particularly vulnerable to falls consists of elderly people living in residential-care …

Abstract The Vision Zero policy was adopted by the Swedish parliament in 1997 as a new
direction for road traffic safety. The aim of the policy is that no one should be killed or …

In this paper we use data from Swedish national registers to study socio‐demographic
patterns of hospital admissions as a result of injuries sustained at home (poisoning, falls …

Subcontracting or contracting out work is a practice that has been utilized in the Swedish
mining industry. According to official statistics on occupational injuries, mining accident rates …

To improve work environment there is a need for knowledge about risks. One must identify
the risks, evaluate them and find their antecedents. As an aid in this work the Information …

PROBLEM: Suicide is a dominating, although hidden, safety problem on Swedish railroads.
The aim of this paper is to describe the epidemiology of fatal train-person collisions as a …

Cross-sectional studies have produced clear inverted U-shaped curves between injury
mortality and economic development; yet, this does not mean that single countries will …

Background Previous trend studies have shown large increases in hip fracture incidence
rates among the elderly. International research, however, suggests a levelling off, or decline …

The purposes of this study are to provide an estimation of the incidence of transport injuries
in a defined local community in Nicaragua by using the capture–recapture method, and to …