S P Baker
Biographic Data
| ID | 6055972 |
|---|---|
| NAME | S P Baker |
| GIVEN NAMES | S P |
| FAMILY NAME | Baker |
| SIGNATURE | BAKER S P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Back injury in municipal workers
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to identify factors associated with acute low back injury among municipal employees of a large city. METHODS: For each of 200 injured case patients, 2 coworker controls were randomly selected, the first matched on gender, job, and department and the second matched on gender and job classification. In-person interviews were conducted to collect data on demographics, work history, work characteristics, work…
Injuries to bicyclists in Wuhan, People's Republic of China
OBJECTIVES: This study examined the morbidity and mortality from bicycling injuries in Wuhan, China. METHODS: Police department data for the year 1993 complemented by data from emergency room interviews were analyzed. RESULTS: The death rate from bicycling injuries was estimated as 2.2 per 100000 population, more than seven times the rate for the United States. At least 79% of the fatalities and 17% of the emergency room cases sustained head inju…
Head injuries incurred by children and young adults during informal recreation
To examine injuries related to playground equipment, children's vehicles, roller skates, and skateboards, 1991 data on emergency room patients younger than 25 years in the Consumer Product Safety Commission's 91 surveillance hospitals were used. Head injury was the primary diagnosis for an estimated 58,480 patients, exceeding the total number of head injuries to bicyclists younger than 25 years. The head injury rate decreased with age. The large …
Drinking behavior in relation to cause of death among US adults
OBJECTIVES. Alcohol involvement is common in many fatal injuries. This study examines drinking behavior in a nationally representative sample of US adult decedents aged 25 through 64 years and its association with cause of death. METHODS. Proxy-reported information from the 1986 National Mortality Followback Survey was used to profile the decedents' usual frequency and quantity of drinking. The association of drinking behavior with underlying cau…
A comparison of injury death rates in China and the United States, 1986
BACKGROUND: The importance of injury as a public health problem is not well recognized in many developing countries. Data have recently become available on injury mortality in China. METHOD: We compared Chinese injury data based on a 100 million population segment for 1986 with data for the United States. RESULTS: The age-adjusted death rate from all injuries for China exceeds the rate for the US (69.0 vs 61.3 per 100,000). The US has higher deat…
Childhood injury deaths
Twenty-three causes of injury mortality in children ages 0-14 in the United States were analyzed by age, race, sex, and state of residence for the years 1980-85. Motor vehicles caused 37 per cent of all injury-related deaths and were the leading cause of injury mortality in every group except children younger than one year, for whom homicide was the leading cause. Male death rates were at least four times female rates for suicide, unintentional f…
Geographic variation in the occurrence of hip fractures among the elderly white US population
Geographic variations in hip fracture rates across the nine US Census Divisions were examined using data for elderly Whites from the 1979-85 National Hospital Discharge Survey. Rates varied considerably and were highest in the West North Central Division where rates for females were 50 percent higher than the US rate. Reasons for the geographic variations in hip fracture rates are unknown but do not appear to be closely related to latitude or fal…
Murder at work
Murder at work. P E Dietz, and S P BakerCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.77.10.1273 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Poisoning hospitalizations and deaths from solids and liquids among children and teenagers
Twenty-four deaths and 4,271 hospital admissions due to poisoning occurred in the 0-19 year age group in Maryland during 1979-82. Four-fifths of the deaths (83 per cent) and two-thirds of the admissions involved teenagers. Among teenagers, four out of five admissions and deaths were of suicidal or undetermined intent. Black males had the highest hospitalization rate among young children, and White females among teenagers. The most common poisons …
Smoke detector legislation
Montgomery County, Maryland was the first major jurisdiction to pass a law requiring smoke detectors in all homes. Smoke detector coverage in the county was evaluated five years after the law's implementation and compared to the coverage in neighboring Fairfax County, Virginia, which has no such law. Firefighters visited 651 randomly selected owner-occupied homes and tested each detector. While a similar percentage of homes in Montgomery and Fair…
Without guns, do people kill people
Without guns, do people kill people? S P BakerCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.75.6.587 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Medical data and injuries
Medical data and injuries. S P BakerCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.73.7.733 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Recent trends in fatal poisoning by opiates in the United States
Deaths in the United States classified as unintentional poisoning by drugs and medicaments fell from 14.7 per million population in 1975 to 8.8 in 1978, a 40 per cent decrease. Seventy-three per cent of this drop attributable to a reduction in deaths coded to opiates and intravenous narcotism. These two categories accounted for 38 per cent of all unintentional drug deaths in 1975 but only 15 per cent in 1978. There was no simultaneous increase in…
Freedom and protection
Freedom and protection: a balancing of interests. S P Baker, and S P TeretCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.71.3.295 Published Online: October 07, 2011
On lobbies, liberty, and the public good
On lobbies, liberty, and the public good. S P BakerCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.70.6.573 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Who bought the cars in which people are injured? An exploratory study
Who bought the cars in which people are injured? An exploratory study. S P BakerCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.69.1.76 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Alcohol and motorcycle fatalities
A series of 99 fatal motorcycle crashes in Maryland was studied retrospectively, using police and medical examiner records. Blood alcohol concentrations were determined for 62 motorcycle drivers; measurable amounts of alcohol were found in two-thirds (41), and one-half (31) had illegally high concentrations of 100 mg/100 ml or more. The police report mentioned alcohol in only 9 instances. High blood alcohol concentrations were found most commonly…
Professional drivers
On the job" motor vehicle deaths number more than 4,000 annually in the U.S. and comprise nearly one-third of all work-related deaths. Yet the Department of Labor has set no standards relating to on-the-road safety of the millions of workers whose jobs entail large amounts of driving, and Department of Transportation standards affecting occupational safety cover only drivers in interstate commerce. Drivers of some commercial vehicles, such as hea…
Social problems and injury
Social problems and injury. S P BakerCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.65.2.184 Published Online: October 07, 2011
The man in the street
The man in the street: a tale of two cities. S P BakerCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.65.5.524 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Fatal pedestrian collisions
Fatal pedestrian collisions: driver negligence. S P Baker, L S Robertson, and B O'NeillCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.64.4.318 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Drowning
Drowning: epidemiology and prevention. P E Dietz, and S P BakerCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.64.4.303 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Fatal unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning in motor vehicles
Fatal unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning in motor vehicles. S P Baker, R S Fisher, W C Masemore, and I M SopherCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.62.11.1463 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Drowning
Drowning: epidemiology and prevention. P E Dietz, and S P BakerCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.64.4.303 Published Online: October 07, 2011
On lobbies, liberty, and the public good
On lobbies, liberty, and the public good. S P BakerCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.70.6.573 Published Online: October 07, 2011
A comparison of injury death rates in China and the United States, 1986
BACKGROUND: The importance of injury as a public health problem is not well recognized in many developing countries. Data have recently become available on injury mortality in China. METHOD: We compared Chinese injury data based on a 100 million population segment for 1986 with data for the United States. RESULTS: The age-adjusted death rate from all injuries for China exceeds the rate for the US (69.0 vs 61.3 per 100,000). The US has higher deat…
Childhood injury deaths
Twenty-three causes of injury mortality in children ages 0-14 in the United States were analyzed by age, race, sex, and state of residence for the years 1980-85. Motor vehicles caused 37 per cent of all injury-related deaths and were the leading cause of injury mortality in every group except children younger than one year, for whom homicide was the leading cause. Male death rates were at least four times female rates for suicide, unintentional f…
Drinking behavior in relation to cause of death among US adults
OBJECTIVES. Alcohol involvement is common in many fatal injuries. This study examines drinking behavior in a nationally representative sample of US adult decedents aged 25 through 64 years and its association with cause of death. METHODS. Proxy-reported information from the 1986 National Mortality Followback Survey was used to profile the decedents' usual frequency and quantity of drinking. The association of drinking behavior with underlying cau…
Geographic variation in the occurrence of hip fractures among the elderly white US population
Geographic variations in hip fracture rates across the nine US Census Divisions were examined using data for elderly Whites from the 1979-85 National Hospital Discharge Survey. Rates varied considerably and were highest in the West North Central Division where rates for females were 50 percent higher than the US rate. Reasons for the geographic variations in hip fracture rates are unknown but do not appear to be closely related to latitude or fal…
Fatal unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning in motor vehicles
Fatal unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning in motor vehicles. S P Baker, R S Fisher, W C Masemore, and I M SopherCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.62.11.1463 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Alcohol and motorcycle fatalities
A series of 99 fatal motorcycle crashes in Maryland was studied retrospectively, using police and medical examiner records. Blood alcohol concentrations were determined for 62 motorcycle drivers; measurable amounts of alcohol were found in two-thirds (41), and one-half (31) had illegally high concentrations of 100 mg/100 ml or more. The police report mentioned alcohol in only 9 instances. High blood alcohol concentrations were found most commonly…
Without guns, do people kill people
Without guns, do people kill people? S P BakerCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.75.6.587 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Recent trends in fatal poisoning by opiates in the United States
Deaths in the United States classified as unintentional poisoning by drugs and medicaments fell from 14.7 per million population in 1975 to 8.8 in 1978, a 40 per cent decrease. Seventy-three per cent of this drop attributable to a reduction in deaths coded to opiates and intravenous narcotism. These two categories accounted for 38 per cent of all unintentional drug deaths in 1975 but only 15 per cent in 1978. There was no simultaneous increase in…
Fatal pedestrian collisions
Fatal pedestrian collisions: driver negligence. S P Baker, L S Robertson, and B O'NeillCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.64.4.318 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Freedom and protection
Freedom and protection: a balancing of interests. S P Baker, and S P TeretCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.71.3.295 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Injuries to bicyclists in Wuhan, People's Republic of China
OBJECTIVES: This study examined the morbidity and mortality from bicycling injuries in Wuhan, China. METHODS: Police department data for the year 1993 complemented by data from emergency room interviews were analyzed. RESULTS: The death rate from bicycling injuries was estimated as 2.2 per 100000 population, more than seven times the rate for the United States. At least 79% of the fatalities and 17% of the emergency room cases sustained head inju…
Head injuries incurred by children and young adults during informal recreation
To examine injuries related to playground equipment, children's vehicles, roller skates, and skateboards, 1991 data on emergency room patients younger than 25 years in the Consumer Product Safety Commission's 91 surveillance hospitals were used. Head injury was the primary diagnosis for an estimated 58,480 patients, exceeding the total number of head injuries to bicyclists younger than 25 years. The head injury rate decreased with age. The large …
Smoke detector legislation
Montgomery County, Maryland was the first major jurisdiction to pass a law requiring smoke detectors in all homes. Smoke detector coverage in the county was evaluated five years after the law's implementation and compared to the coverage in neighboring Fairfax County, Virginia, which has no such law. Firefighters visited 651 randomly selected owner-occupied homes and tested each detector. While a similar percentage of homes in Montgomery and Fair…
Social problems and injury
Social problems and injury. S P BakerCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.65.2.184 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Back injury in municipal workers
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to identify factors associated with acute low back injury among municipal employees of a large city. METHODS: For each of 200 injured case patients, 2 coworker controls were randomly selected, the first matched on gender, job, and department and the second matched on gender and job classification. In-person interviews were conducted to collect data on demographics, work history, work characteristics, work…
Medical data and injuries
Medical data and injuries. S P BakerCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.73.7.733 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Who bought the cars in which people are injured? An exploratory study
Who bought the cars in which people are injured? An exploratory study. S P BakerCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.69.1.76 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Professional drivers
On the job" motor vehicle deaths number more than 4,000 annually in the U.S. and comprise nearly one-third of all work-related deaths. Yet the Department of Labor has set no standards relating to on-the-road safety of the millions of workers whose jobs entail large amounts of driving, and Department of Transportation standards affecting occupational safety cover only drivers in interstate commerce. Drivers of some commercial vehicles, such as hea…
The man in the street
The man in the street: a tale of two cities. S P BakerCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.65.5.524 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Fatal unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning in motor vehicles
Fatal unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning in motor vehicles. S P Baker, R S Fisher, W C Masemore, and I M SopherCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.62.11.1463 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Fatal pedestrian collisions
Fatal pedestrian collisions: driver negligence. S P Baker, L S Robertson, and B O'NeillCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.64.4.318 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Drowning
Drowning: epidemiology and prevention. P E Dietz, and S P BakerCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.64.4.303 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Social problems and injury
Social problems and injury. S P BakerCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.65.2.184 Published Online: October 07, 2011
The man in the street
The man in the street: a tale of two cities. S P BakerCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.65.5.524 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Professional drivers
On the job" motor vehicle deaths number more than 4,000 annually in the U.S. and comprise nearly one-third of all work-related deaths. Yet the Department of Labor has set no standards relating to on-the-road safety of the millions of workers whose jobs entail large amounts of driving, and Department of Transportation standards affecting occupational safety cover only drivers in interstate commerce. Drivers of some commercial vehicles, such as hea…
Alcohol and motorcycle fatalities
A series of 99 fatal motorcycle crashes in Maryland was studied retrospectively, using police and medical examiner records. Blood alcohol concentrations were determined for 62 motorcycle drivers; measurable amounts of alcohol were found in two-thirds (41), and one-half (31) had illegally high concentrations of 100 mg/100 ml or more. The police report mentioned alcohol in only 9 instances. High blood alcohol concentrations were found most commonly…
Who bought the cars in which people are injured? An exploratory study
Who bought the cars in which people are injured? An exploratory study. S P BakerCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.69.1.76 Published Online: October 07, 2011
On lobbies, liberty, and the public good
On lobbies, liberty, and the public good. S P BakerCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.70.6.573 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Freedom and protection
Freedom and protection: a balancing of interests. S P Baker, and S P TeretCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.71.3.295 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Recent trends in fatal poisoning by opiates in the United States
Deaths in the United States classified as unintentional poisoning by drugs and medicaments fell from 14.7 per million population in 1975 to 8.8 in 1978, a 40 per cent decrease. Seventy-three per cent of this drop attributable to a reduction in deaths coded to opiates and intravenous narcotism. These two categories accounted for 38 per cent of all unintentional drug deaths in 1975 but only 15 per cent in 1978. There was no simultaneous increase in…
Medical data and injuries
Medical data and injuries. S P BakerCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.73.7.733 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Smoke detector legislation
Montgomery County, Maryland was the first major jurisdiction to pass a law requiring smoke detectors in all homes. Smoke detector coverage in the county was evaluated five years after the law's implementation and compared to the coverage in neighboring Fairfax County, Virginia, which has no such law. Firefighters visited 651 randomly selected owner-occupied homes and tested each detector. While a similar percentage of homes in Montgomery and Fair…
Without guns, do people kill people
Without guns, do people kill people? S P BakerCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.75.6.587 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Poisoning hospitalizations and deaths from solids and liquids among children and teenagers
Twenty-four deaths and 4,271 hospital admissions due to poisoning occurred in the 0-19 year age group in Maryland during 1979-82. Four-fifths of the deaths (83 per cent) and two-thirds of the admissions involved teenagers. Among teenagers, four out of five admissions and deaths were of suicidal or undetermined intent. Black males had the highest hospitalization rate among young children, and White females among teenagers. The most common poisons …
Murder at work
Murder at work. P E Dietz, and S P BakerCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.77.10.1273 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Childhood injury deaths
Twenty-three causes of injury mortality in children ages 0-14 in the United States were analyzed by age, race, sex, and state of residence for the years 1980-85. Motor vehicles caused 37 per cent of all injury-related deaths and were the leading cause of injury mortality in every group except children younger than one year, for whom homicide was the leading cause. Male death rates were at least four times female rates for suicide, unintentional f…
Geographic variation in the occurrence of hip fractures among the elderly white US population
Geographic variations in hip fracture rates across the nine US Census Divisions were examined using data for elderly Whites from the 1979-85 National Hospital Discharge Survey. Rates varied considerably and were highest in the West North Central Division where rates for females were 50 percent higher than the US rate. Reasons for the geographic variations in hip fracture rates are unknown but do not appear to be closely related to latitude or fal…
A comparison of injury death rates in China and the United States, 1986
BACKGROUND: The importance of injury as a public health problem is not well recognized in many developing countries. Data have recently become available on injury mortality in China. METHOD: We compared Chinese injury data based on a 100 million population segment for 1986 with data for the United States. RESULTS: The age-adjusted death rate from all injuries for China exceeds the rate for the US (69.0 vs 61.3 per 100,000). The US has higher deat…
Head injuries incurred by children and young adults during informal recreation
To examine injuries related to playground equipment, children's vehicles, roller skates, and skateboards, 1991 data on emergency room patients younger than 25 years in the Consumer Product Safety Commission's 91 surveillance hospitals were used. Head injury was the primary diagnosis for an estimated 58,480 patients, exceeding the total number of head injuries to bicyclists younger than 25 years. The head injury rate decreased with age. The large …
Drinking behavior in relation to cause of death among US adults
OBJECTIVES. Alcohol involvement is common in many fatal injuries. This study examines drinking behavior in a nationally representative sample of US adult decedents aged 25 through 64 years and its association with cause of death. METHODS. Proxy-reported information from the 1986 National Mortality Followback Survey was used to profile the decedents' usual frequency and quantity of drinking. The association of drinking behavior with underlying cau…
Injuries to bicyclists in Wuhan, People's Republic of China
OBJECTIVES: This study examined the morbidity and mortality from bicycling injuries in Wuhan, China. METHODS: Police department data for the year 1993 complemented by data from emergency room interviews were analyzed. RESULTS: The death rate from bicycling injuries was estimated as 2.2 per 100000 population, more than seven times the rate for the United States. At least 79% of the fatalities and 17% of the emergency room cases sustained head inju…
Back injury in municipal workers
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to identify factors associated with acute low back injury among municipal employees of a large city. METHODS: For each of 200 injured case patients, 2 coworker controls were randomly selected, the first matched on gender, job, and department and the second matched on gender and job classification. In-person interviews were conducted to collect data on demographics, work history, work characteristics, work…
Medicine (22 works) · Environmental health (17 works) · Injury prevention (15 works) · Poison control (15 works) · Suicide prevention (12 works) · Occupational safety and health (11 works) · Medical emergency (9 works) · Demography (8 works) · Human Factors and Ergonomics (8 works) · Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (7 works)