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Journal articles on the topic "Traffic accidents Australia"

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Retallack, Angus Eugene, and Bertram Ostendorf. "Relationship Between Traffic Volume and Accident Frequency at Intersections." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 4 (February 21, 2020): 1393. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17041393.

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Driven by the high social costs and emotional trauma that result from traffic accidents around the world, research into understanding the factors that influence accident occurrence is critical. There is a lack of consensus about how the management of congestion may affect traffic accidents. This paper aims to improve our understanding of this relationship by analysing accidents at 120 intersections in Adelaide, Australia. Data comprised of 1629 motor vehicle accidents with traffic volumes from a dataset of more than five million hourly measurements. The effect of rainfall was also examined. Results showed an approximately linear relationship between traffic volume and accident frequency at lower traffic volumes. In the highest traffic volumes, poisson and negative binomial models showed a significant quadratic explanatory term as accident frequency increases at a higher rate. This implies that focusing management efforts on avoiding these conditions would be most effective in reducing accident frequency. The relative risk of rainfall on accident frequency decreases with increasing congestion index. Accident risk is five times greater during rain at low congestion levels, successively decreasing to no elevated risk at the highest congestion level. No significant effect of congestion index on accident severity was detected.
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Smith, D. I. "Effect on Traffic Safety of Introducing a 0.05% Blood Alcohol Level in Queensland, Australia." Medicine, Science and the Law 28, no. 2 (April 1988): 165–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002580248802800217.

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A 0.08% maximum legal blood alcohol level (BAL) for drivers in Queensland was replaced by a 0.05% BAL. As alcohol is especially likely to be a factor in night-time accidents, the evaluation focused on the extent to which night-time accidents decreased in comparison to daytime accidents. It appeared that most, if not all, of the significant 8.2% reduction in night-time hospitalization and 5.5% reduction in property damage accidents in the first year after the legislative change could be attributed to the lower BAL. The evaluation showed that the 0.05% BAL had an accident-reducing effectiveness beyond its first year of operation, although some of the accident reductions in the second and third years may have been partly the result of increased enforcement.
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Smith, D. I. "Effect of Low Proscribed Blood Alcohol Levels (BALs) on Traffic Accidents among Newly-Licensed Drivers." Medicine, Science and the Law 26, no. 2 (April 1986): 144–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002580248602600209.

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Three Australian States introduced lower blood alcohol levels (BALs) for first-year drivers than those applicable to other drivers. In Tasmania, a zero BAL significantly reduced casualty accidents for drivers and motorcyclists, in South Australia a 005 per cent BAL significantly reduced male driver and motorcyclist casualty accidents not requiring hospitalization, while in Western Australia a 002 per cent BAL significantly reduced driver and motorcyclist casualty accidents not requiring hospitalization. For a number of methodological reasons the counter-measure should only be regarded as a promising rather than a proven way of reducing alcohol-related accidents among young drivers.
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Flannery, Aimee, and Tapan K. Datta. "Modern Roundabouts and Traffic Crash Experience in United States." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1553, no. 1 (January 1996): 103–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198196155300115.

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Roundabouts have become popular in Australia and many countries in Europe during the past few decades. In the United States of America, however, roundabouts are just beginning to be recognized as an alternative treatment for roadway intersections. An effort was made to collect traffic and traffic crash data for existing roundabouts in the United States and to perform a statistical analysis to determine the effectiveness of roundabouts as a treatment for intersecting roadways. General information about thirteen roundabouts located in Maryland, Florida, Nevada, and California was collected and is included for readers’ use. In addition, six retrofitted roundabout sites with accident data ranging from 1 to 3 years before and after were analyzed. In all but one case, the reduction in accidents for roundabout sites was in the range of 60 to 70 percent. A chi-squared test and a normal approximation test were performed using the accident data from these six roundabout sites. Both of these tests indicated a significant difference in the reduction of frequency and mean of accidents at 95 and 99 percent confidence levels, respectively, between pre-roundabout and post-roundabout periods. Results, though limited, are encouraging and in line with findings of past European and Australian studies involving roundabouts. Additional studies on the safety performance of U.S. roundabouts should be conducted in the future when more data are available to reinforce these findings.
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Zou, Xin, and Wen Long Yue. "A Bayesian Network Approach to Causation Analysis of Road Accidents Using Netica." Journal of Advanced Transportation 2017 (2017): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/2525481.

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Based on an overall consideration of factors affecting road safety evaluations, the Bayesian network theory based on probability risk analysis was applied to the causation analysis of road accidents. By taking Adelaide Central Business District (CBD) in South Australia as a case, the Bayesian network structure was established by integrating K2 algorithm with experts’ knowledge, and Expectation-Maximization algorithm that could process missing data was adopted to conduct the parameter learning in Netica, thereby establishing the Bayesian network model for the causation analysis of road accidents. Then Netica was used to carry out posterior probability reasoning, the most probable explanation, and inferential analysis. The results showed that the Bayesian network model could effectively explore the complex logical relation in road accidents and express the uncertain relation among related variables. The model not only can quantitatively predict the probability of an accident in certain road traffic condition but also can find the key reasons and the most unfavorable state combination which leads to the occurrence of an accident. The results of the study can provide theoretical support for urban road management authorities to thoroughly analyse the induction factors of road accidents and then establish basis in improving the safety performance of the urban road traffic system.
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Liu, Yan, Siqin Wang, Xuanming Fu, and Bin Xie. "A network-constrained spatial identification of high-risk roads for hit-parked-vehicle collisions in Brisbane, Australia." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 51, no. 2 (October 30, 2018): 279–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518x18810531.

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The severe loss of human life and material damage caused by traffic accidents is a growing concern faced by many countries across the world. In Australia, despite a decline in the total number of traffic collisions since 2001, the number of hit-parked-vehicle (HPV) collisions as a special type of road accident has increased over time. Utilizing the road collisions and roadway network data in Brisbane, Australia over a 10-year period from 2001 to 2010, we generated graphics illustrating the spatial patterning of high-risk road segments for HPV crashes identified using the local indicator of network-constrained clusters (LINCS) approach. These spatial patterns vary by days of the week and times of the day. Roads with high risk for HPV collision tend to occur in high-density road networks and cluster around road intersections. The methodology applied in this work is applicable to other network-constrained point-pattern analysis.
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Smith, D. Ian. "Effect on Traffic Accidents of Introducing Sunday Alcohol Sales in Brisbane, Australia." International Journal of the Addictions 23, no. 10 (January 1988): 1091–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/10826088809056188.

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Alajali, Walaa, Wei Zhou, Sheng Wen, and Yu Wang. "Intersection Traffic Prediction Using Decision Tree Models." Symmetry 10, no. 9 (September 7, 2018): 386. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sym10090386.

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Traffic prediction is a critical task for intelligent transportation systems (ITS). Prediction at intersections is challenging as it involves various participants, such as vehicles, cyclists, and pedestrians. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for the accurate intersection traffic prediction by introducing extra data sources other than road traffic volume data into the prediction model. In particular, we take advantage of the data collected from the reports of road accidents and roadworks happening near the intersections. In addition, we investigate two types of learning schemes, namely batch learning and online learning. Three popular ensemble decision tree models are used in the batch learning scheme, including Gradient Boosting Regression Trees (GBRT), Random Forest (RF) and Extreme Gradient Boosting Trees (XGBoost), while the Fast Incremental Model Trees with Drift Detection (FIMT-DD) model is adopted for the online learning scheme. The proposed approach is evaluated using public data sets released by the Victorian Government of Australia. The results indicate that the accuracy of intersection traffic prediction can be improved by incorporating nearby accidents and roadworks information.
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SMITH, D. I. "Effect on Traffic Accidents of Introducing Flexible Hotel Trading Hours in Tasmania, Australia." Addiction 83, no. 2 (February 1988): 219–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.1988.tb03984.x.

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Smith, D. Ian. "Effect on Casualty Traffic Accidents of Changing Sunday Alcohol Sales Legislation in Victoria, Australia." Journal of Drug Issues 20, no. 3 (July 1990): 417–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002204269002000303.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Traffic accidents Australia"

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Breen, Lauren Jennifer. "Silenced voices experiences of grief following road traffic crashes in Western Australia /." Connect to thesis, 2006. http://portal.ecu.edu.au/adt-public/adt-ECU2007.0026.html.

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Shrensky, Ruth, and n/a. "The ontology of communication: a reconcepualisation of the nature of communication through a critique of mass media public communication campaigns." University of Canberra. Communication, 1997. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20050601.163735.

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Conclusion. It is probably now appropriate to close a chapter in the history of public communication campaigning. Weaknesses which have usually been seen as instrumental can now be seen for what they are: conceptual failures grounded in compromised ontologies and false epistemologies. As I showed in the last chapter, even when viewed within their own narrow empiricist frame, public communication campaigns fail to satisfy a test of empirical efficacy. But empirical failure reveals a deeper moral failure: the failure of government to properly engage in a conversation with the citizens to whom they are ultimately responsible. Whether public communication campaigns are a symptom or a cause of this failure lies beyond the scope of this thesis. But there can be little doubt that the practice of these campaigns has encouraged the persistence of an inappropriate relation between state and citizens. The originators and managers of mass media public communication campaigns conceive of and execute their creations as persuasive devices aimed at the targets who have been selected to receive their messages. But we do not see ourselves as targets (and there are profound ethical reasons why we should not be treated as such), neither do we engage with the mass media as message receivers. On the contrary, as social beings, we become actively and creatively involved with the communicative events which we attend to and participate in; the mass media, like all other communication opportunities, provide the means for generating new meanings, new ways of understanding, new social realities. But people are constrained from participating fully in public discussion about social issues; the government's construal of individuals as targets and of communication as transmitted messages does not provide the discursive space for mutual interaction. Governments should aim to encourage the active engagement of citizens in public discussion by conceiving of and executing public communication as part of a continuing conversation, not as packaged commodities to be marketed and consumed, or as messages to be received. It is time to encourage alternative practices-practices which open up the possibility of productive conversations which will help transform the relationship between citizens and state. However, as I have argued in this thesis, changed practices must be accompanied by profound changes in thinking, otherwise we continue to reinvent the past. Communication practice is informed by the ontology of communication which is itself embedded within other ontologies and epistemologies. The dominant paradigm of communication is at present in a state of crisis, caught between two views of communication power. On the one hand it displays an obsession with instrumental effectiveness on which it cannot deliver. On the other hand-in an attempt to discard the accumulated baggage of dualist philosophy and mechanistic models of effective communication-it indulges in a humourless critique of language which, as Robert Hughes astutely observes, is little more than an enclave of abstract complaint (Hughes 1993:72). This thesis has been an attempt to open up a space for a new ontology, within which we might create new possibilities.
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Channon, Tim. "Automobile accident compensation in Australia : analysis of a theory for the diversity amongst the state schemes." 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2100/623.

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University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Law.
There are different notions of justice that support different reasons for compensating people injured in automobile accidents. The' traditional' method of compensating such persons is the tort system, which involves accident victim proving that fault of some other person caused their injury. This system is not a compensation scheme per se, but a means of shifting losses in accordance with community expectations. This system was criticised during the 20th-century for its inequity, expense and delay. Alternative compensation systems developed which supplement or replace tort as a means of access to compensation. These are divided into 'hybrid' systems - add-on, threshold and choice no-fault - and 'pure' no-fault. There are numerous arguments for and against each system and no one scheme has emerged as the system of choice internationally. In Australia, which is a Federation of states and territories, each jurisdiction has a separate scheme. The majority are fault based but with variations in benefit structures. There is also an add-on no-fault system in Tasmania, a threshold no-fault system in Victoria and a pure no-fault scheme covering residents of the Northern Territory. This pattern of diversity could be expected because of reluctance to embrace change when alternatives are not universally viewed as superior. Chapman and Trebilcock argue that the diversity signifies political instability that is not seen in other areas of law such as workplace injuries, products liability and medical malpractice. They hypothesise that because appreciation of facts surrounding automobile accidents and core values within communities across a Federation such as Australia should be similar, the probable reason for diversity is the existence of majority voting cycles and sequence dependent outcomes. A critical analysis of Chapman and Trebilcock's reasoning shows that their basic premise is faulty. An examination of the evidence from the structure of each Australian scheme, and the scheme reviews and debates on points of change during the period from 1970 to date, demonstrates that in relation to Australian automobile accident compensation schemes, Chapman and Trebilcock's theory is probably wrong, and the diversity is a result of rational democratic political processes.
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Littleton, Susannah. "Outcomes in musculoskeletal injuries following road traffic crashes : an evaluation of an early intervention programme." Phd thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150200.

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Introduction This thesis evaluates the effect of an early intervention programme on the physical and psychological health status of people with mild to moderate musculoskeletal injuries following road traffic crashes, and examines the influence of accident fault status and compensation claim status on recovery. Methods A sequential cohort of patients presenting to emergency departments in the Australian Capital Territory for treatment of mild to moderate musculoskeletal injuries sustained in road traffic crashes were recruited. A control group of 95 patients received the usual care provided. An Intervention group of 98 patients were referred to a specialist clinic for assessment, during which an individualised, proactive rehabilitation plan was established. Both physical and psychological health status were measured at baseline, six months and 12 months post-crash using the Short Form 36 (SF-36; Physical Component Score and Mental Component Score); the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS); and Functional Rating Index (FRI). Three analyses were performed using the health outcome data obtained. Firstly, the influence of fault status on baseline physical and psychological health was evaluated by comparing the health outcomes scores of patients who caused the crash in which they were involved with scores from patients who were not at fault. Secondly, the effect of claiming compensation was evaluated for the control group by comparing SF-36, HADS and FRI scores between patients of the control group who had claimed compensation and those who did not claim compensation. Finally, the effect of the early intervention programme was evaluated by comparing health outcome scores of the control and intervention groups. Results Patients were enrolled a mean of 9.3 days following the crash. In the immediate post-crash period, the cohort was characterised by severe disability (FRI 55.5, SD 21.04), moderate levels of pain (pain intensity sub-scale of the FRI 2.0, SD 0.81) and high levels of anxiety (HADS-a9.1, SD 4.55). Fault status had no effect on physical health; however, people that were not at fault had significantly worse psychological health at baseline as measured by SF-36 Mental Component Score. Claiming compensation was associated with a worse SF-36 Physical Component Score, greater HADS-anxiety and worse FRI. Retention of a lawyer was significantly associated with a lower SF-36 Mental Component Score at 12 months. The early intervention programme resulted in a statistically significant reduction in anxiety at 12 months. However, neither anxiety, nor any of the other measures of physical or psychological health were considered to be improved to a clinically significant level by the intervention. Conclusion Compensation status and psychological factors are independent determinants of longer term health following mild to moderate musculoskeletal injuries sustained in road traffic crashes. The early specialist assessment and proactive treatment planning implemented as part of this thesis, failed to improve health outcomes over usual care alone. Overall, recovery is influenced by both physical and psychological factors, and models of care need to address both of these components.
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Books on the topic "Traffic accidents Australia"

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Beel, Andrea. The introduction of 0.05 legislation in Western Australia: A preliminary research report. Bentley, WA: Curtin University of Technology, National Centre for Research into the Prevention of Drug Abuse, 1993.

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Beel, Andrea. The impact of Western Australia's .05 legislation on drivers' attitudes, perceptions, and behaviours. Bentley, WA: Curtin University of Technology, 1995.

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Cook, Elspeth. Hard time. Fremantle, W.A: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1998.

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Homel, Ross. Policing and punishing the drinking driver: A study of general and specific deterrence. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1988.

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Homel, Ross. Policing and punishing the drinking driver: A study of general and specific deterrence. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1988.

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Brown, Douglas. Traffic Offences and Accidents. LexisNexis, 2006.

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Massey, Dale. Accident Cover-Up. Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd., 2016.

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Massey, Dale. Accident Cover-Up. Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd., 2016.

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Grant, Noble, and Australia. Office of Road Safety., eds. Portrayals of driving and alcohol in popular television programmes screened in Australia. Canberra: Federal Office of Road Safety, 1990.

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Orr, Wendy. Peeling the Onion: A Gripping Story, Told with Honesty and Biting Humour. Quarto Publishing Group UK, 2007.

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Book chapters on the topic "Traffic accidents Australia"

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"Applying Decision Tree Approaches on Vehicle-Pedestrian Crashes." In Big Data Analytics in Traffic and Transportation Engineering, 67–101. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7943-4.ch004.

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In the Melbourne metropolitan area in Australia, an average of 34 pedestrians were killed in traffic accidents every year between 2004 and 2013, and vehicle-pedestrian crashes accounted for 24% of all fatal crashes. Mid-block crashes accounted for 46% of the total pedestrian crashes in the Melbourne metropolitan area and 49% of the pedestrian fatalities occurred at mid-blocks. Many studies have examined factors contributing to the frequency and severity of vehicle-pedestrian crashes. While many of the studies have chosen to focus on crashes at intersections, few studies have focussed on vehicle-pedestrian crashes at mid-blocks. Since the factors contributing to vehicle crashes at intersections and mid-blocks are significantly different, more research needs to be done to develop a model for vehicle-pedestrian crashes at mid-blocks. In order to identify factors contributing to the severity of vehicle-pedestrian crashes, three models using different decision trees (DTs) were developed. To improve the accuracy, stability, and robustness of the DTs, bagging and boosting techniques were used in this chapter. The results of this study show that the boosting technique improves the accuracy of individual DT models by 46%. Moreover, the results of boosting DTs (BDTs) show that neighbourhood social characteristics are as important as traffic and infrastructure variables in influencing the severity of pedestrian crashes.
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Bennett, Stephen. "Algorithms of Life and Death." In Autonomous Vehicle Ethics, 191—C12.P100. Oxford University PressNew York, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197639191.003.0012.

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Abstract In this chapter, a utilitarian approach is taken to the issue of self-driving car programming, treating it as an applied ethics problem in the realm of public policy within the Australian context. In doing so, this chapter goes beyond trolley-like crash scenarios and takes much broader factors into account: namely, experimental philosophy, evolutionary psychology, traffic accident data, and, importantly, the broader consequences that are expected to follow from the widespread adoption or rejection of the new technology. Ultimately, this chapter argues that current views on utilitarianism applied to self-driving car programming fail to take important factors into account, and that a self-driving car operating under utilitarianism should always protect its passengers, rather than aiming at causing the least amount of harm within an individual traffic accident scenario.
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Abeyratne, Udantha R. "A Framework for Information Processing in the Diagnosis of Sleep Apnea." In Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems, 610–17. IGI Global, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-889-5.ch077.

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Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is one of the most common sleep disorders. It is characterized by repetitive obstruction of the upper airways during sleep. The frequency of such events can range up to hundreds of events per sleep-hour. Full closure of the airways is termed apnea, and a partial closure is known as hypopnea. The number of apnea/hypopnea events per hour is known as the AHI-index, and is used by clinical community as a measure of the severity of OSA. OSA, when untreated, presents as a major public health concern throughout the world. OSA patients use health facilities at twice the average rate (Delaive, Roos, Manfreda, & Kryger, 1998), causing huge pressures on national healthcare systems. OSA is associated with serious complications such as cardiovascular disease, stroke, (Barber & Quan, 2002; Kryger, 2000,), and sexual impotence. It also causes cognitive deficiencies, low IQ in children, fatigue, and accidents. Australian Sleep Association reported (ASA, 1999) that in the state of New South Wales alone 11,000–43,000 traffic accidents per year were attributable to untreated-OSA.
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Gross, Michael L. "Veteran Health Care." In Military Medical Ethics in Contemporary Armed Conflict, edited by Michael L. Gross, 254–74. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190694944.003.0013.

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Afterwar, embattled countries often forget their veterans. The rule is simple: nations must offer wounded veterans the same medical care other citizens enjoy. Nevertheless, veterans have no special rights to preferential or priority care. Virtuous or villainous conduct is an unacceptable criterion of medical attention. Just as the innocent victim of a traffic accident enjoys no stronger right to health care than the inattentive driver who ran the light, soldiers enjoy no exclusive right to medical treatment. Nor can discharged veterans appeal to military necessity to afford them the privilege of priority care. Despite provisions in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia to carve out special rights for veterans, they are without a firm moral foundation. Instead, each nation may reward military service with public recognition and financial compensation, while providing every citizen with the high level of care that each deserves by right.
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Lynch, Kate, Daniel T. H. Lai, and Rezaul Begg. "Detection of Gait Patterns in Challenging Environments." In Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems, 425–33. IGI Global, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-889-5.ch054.

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One in three individuals over the age of 65 years (elderly) will fall at least once a year (James, 1993). This probability increases to one in two adults over 80 years (DHA, 2005). Consequently, gait modifications associated with ageing have been linked with increased falls’ probability (Berg, Alessio, Mills, & Tong, 1997; Lord, Sherrington, & Menz, 2001). Despite an increasing research interest in recent times into the aetiology of falls, particularly in the elderly (>65 years), falls continue to be a major public health concern in Australia and worldwide. Fall-related injuries are the leading cause of accidental death in the elderly population, and account for the largest cause of hospitalisation for this population (Lord et al., 2001), with many elderly individuals experiencing physical, social, or functional ramifications following a fall. Consequently, the economic cost of falls to the public health system is escalating, with the total cost of fall injuries reported to be higher than road traffic injuries (DOH, 2004). The majority of falls associated costs include physician consultation, hospital stays, nursing homecare, rehabilitation, medical equipment, home modification and care, community based services, and prescription drugs and administration (DOH, 2004; Lord et al., 2001). Healthcare and related costs associated with falls are expected to double over the next 50 years (Close & Lord, 2006).
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Conference papers on the topic "Traffic accidents Australia"

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KAVALAMTHARA, PETER J., SAJAN CYRIL, YIYANG LIU, and VIVIENNE SAVERIMUTTU. "ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS: REVIEWING THE EFFICACY OF ROAD SAFETY MEASURES IN NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA." In DISASTER MANAGEMENT 2019. Southampton UK: WIT Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/dman190031.

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