A public health priority for only ten percent of the car occupant population:​ why focus on children and how are they different biomechanically?

Arbogast, Kristy B.<sup>1</sup>

Affiliations

¹Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Abstract

The 2014 Bertil Aldman lecture provides a state of the art review of pediatric biomechanics, beginning with defining the scope of the problem of child occupant protection and then describing the recent explosion of data in this field and identifying future research needs in this area.

Links

URL: http://www.ircobi.org/downloads/irc14/pdf_files/01.pdf

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