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- Original Article Accident as a public health problem in Korea and strategies of epidemiologic study on road traffic accidents.
- Joung Soon Kim
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Epidemiol Health 1995;17(2):214-224
DOI: https://doi.org/
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Abstract
Mortality and morbidity caused by accidents among Koreans have been increasing steadily and more strikingly from motor vehicle traffic accidents since 1980's, when owning and driving car became a fashionable and ubiquitous life style among Koreans. The proportion of deaths from accidents among all deaths was 9. 5% in 1983 and increased to 14. 8% in 1993. Moreover the mortality rate from the motor vehicle traffic accident increased more than three folds along with eight folds increased number of vehicles during the same period.
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