What are the risks of incurring serious disability or death as a
result of (a) driving? (b) being a pedestrian? (c) cycling; (d)
pregnancy and childbirth? (e)major surgery? An answer with reference
to US and UL stats would be great.

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 08 Jul 2004 05:09 PDT

These types of charts might be of use to you:

http://www.nsc.org/lrs/statinfo/odds.htm


http://www.cplusc.co.uk/risks.html


Most of the information I'v seen like this focuses on the odds of
mortality.  Similar data for injuries are harder to come by, since
distinguishing a "serious" injury from other types of injuries can be
pretty subjective.

Let me know if these are useful to you, or if you need something different.

pafalafa-ga

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 15 Jul 2004 04:17 PDT

choupette-ga,

I'm glad the links I provided for you earlier were useful to you.  

What additional information would you like to have on this topic, so I
can continue my research and post a formal answer to your question?

If you already have everything you need, let me know that, and I'll
post the links I already provided as an answer.

Thanks.

pafalafa-ga

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Clarification of Question by choupette-ga on 16 Jul 2004 04:16 PDT

In your first message you say that data for injuries (as opposed to
causes of death) are harder to come by. Is there any way at all that
you can at least get some data, or is that impossible?
Thanks
Cecile

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 16 Jul 2004 06:20 PDT

Hello Cecile,

As it turns out, there is a lot of data available for injuries in the
United States, though I have not yet come across similar data for the
UK.

The best consolidated source of information is the Centers for Disease
Prevention and Control (CDC) Injury Fact Book:

http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/fact_book/Index.htm

For instance, you asked about bicycles, and they have a fact sheet on
just that topic:

http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/fact_book/11_Bicycle_Related_Injuries.htm

Each year in the United States, more than 500,000 people are
nonfatally injured while riding bicycles.
In 1999, 750 bicyclists died in crashes. More than one-quarter were
children ages 5 to 15.
  
More than 95% of bicyclists killed were not wearing helmets.
  
An estimated 140,000 children are treated each year in emergency
departments for head injuries sustained while bicycling.

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There are other fact sheets at the site regarding motor vehicle
crashes, and pedestrian injuries.


If you can specify for me what additional type of risk-data you would
like to have, I can search some more and (hopefully) post the
information as an answer to your question.

Let me know what you need at this point.

pafalafa-ga

Cecile,

Thanks for giving me the go-ahead on this.  It was an interesting
question, and fun (in a macabre sort of way) to poke around the data
you asked about.

Here, again, are the links I provided earlier:

These types of charts might be of use to you:

http://www.nsc.org/lrs/statinfo/odds.htm


http://www.cplusc.co.uk/risks.html


The best consolidated source of information is the Centers for Disease
Prevention and Control (CDC) Injury Fact Book:

http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/fact_book/Index.htm

For instance, you asked about bicycles, and they have a fact sheet on
just that topic:

http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/fact_book/11_Bicycle_Related_Injuries.htm

Each year in the United States, more than 500,000 people are
nonfatally injured while riding bicycles.
In 1999, 750 bicyclists died in crashes. More than one-quarter were
children ages 5 to 15.
  
More than 95% of bicyclists killed were not wearing helmets.
  
An estimated 140,000 children are treated each year in emergency
departments for head injuries sustained while bicycling.

==========

There are other fact sheets at the site regarding motor vehicle
crashes, and pedestrian injuries.


Before ranking this answer, please let me know if you need any
additional information, and I'll be more than happy to help out.

Cheers.

pafalafa-ga



search strategy:  Google search on: [injuries (database OR
statistics)] and use of bookmarked sites

UL stats? Do you mean UK?

To scribe-ga: yes, I do mean UK, sorry...
Cecile

To Pafalafa-ga: that's fine, thanks.
Choupette.

Pafalafa
Thanks for this, it's very useful. I don't need more info at this
point, so you can post all this as an answer.
Best
Choup.

Choup,

Thanks for the kind rating.  

All the best with your projects.

paf