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Seat-Belt Use In US Counties: Limited Progress Toward Healthy People 2020 Objectives
Jacob Sunshine1, Laura Dwyer-Lindgren2, Alan Chen3
1Jacob Sunshine (jesun@uw.edu) is an assistant professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of Washington, in Seattle.
Health Affairs (Project Hope)
|April 5, 2017
Abstract:
Spikes in automobile fatalities in 2015 and 2016 have renewed discussions about automobile safety. We measured the prevalence of reported seat-belt compliance in every US county from 2002 to 2012 and found considerable variation.