The Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education (한국학교ㆍ지역보건교육학회지)
- Volume 14 Issue 2
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- Pages.47-57
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- 2013
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- 1975-7697(pISSN)
Epidemiological Characteristics of Bicycle-Injured Patients
자전거손상 환자의 역학적 특성
- Nam, Young-Hee (Dept. of public health administration in Daewon University College) ;
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Lee, Myung-Sun
(Dept. of health education & management in Ewha Womans University)
- Received : 2013.06.13
- Accepted : 2013.08.02
- Published : 2013.08.31
Abstract
Backgrounds: According to a high interest in health these days, a bicycle is being highlighted as a means of leisure activity and auxiliary transportation means. Along with an increase in this interest, there is tendency that even the width of bicycle utilization gets diverse and that bicycle accident is also rapidly growing. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to suggest a prevention measure available for reducing occurrence of bicycle accidents by analyzing the Epidemiological characteristics according to age and injury severity in bicycle-injured patients. Methods: This study analyzed 115 materials suitable for this study by examining a medical record of patients, who received the hospitalized treatment owing to bicycle accident from January 1, 2011 to December 31 at one general hospital in S city. Results: The male-and-female ratio of bicycle-injured patients stood at about 7:3. The average age was 38.14(