Showing papers by "Curtin University published in 1977"

TL;DR: Logistic regression analysis showed that the strongest predictor of walking activity was school type, and after adjusting for this, lesser car ownership, non–English–speaking background and lower occupational category were associated with walking to school, while a different set of predictors–age, sex and maternal education–was associated with the unaccompanied crossing of streets.

TL;DR: The most commonly used drugs were tobacco, alcohol and cannabis among young Aboriginal people aged 8 to 17 in the town of Albany, Western Australia as discussed by the authors, and use of drugs increased with age: 48 per cent of those aged 15 to 17 were frequent polydrug users.

TL;DR: Using data from a case–control study of childhood pedestrian injuries, this study considered the effect on public health of an environmental initiative for prevention and population–attributable risk proportions were calculated for ‘volume of traffic’ and ‘visual obstacles’.