Publications by authors named "Melanie Sargent"
Aims: To provide a descriptive epidemiology of fatal and non-fatal motor vehicle traffic (MVT) crashes involving Maori (1980-1994 inclusive) and to describe factors associated with those crashes.
Methods: A data set for 1980-1994 was created by linking: (1) the New Zealand Police traffic crash reports (providing crash details), and (2) the New Zealand Health Information Services (NZHIS) hospital inpatient and mortality files (providing ethnicity, other demographic and injury details).
Results: The linked data set contained 8178 MVT crash events involving 8273 vehicles/drivers in which there were 9288 Maori casualties.