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E-book Science of Societal Safety

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Unexpected accidents are causes of death listed in the 10th revision of theInternational Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems(ICD-10. Version 2010) by the World Health Organization (WHO) including“trans-port accidents”;“accidental suffocation”;“slipping, tripping, stumbling, and falls”;“accidental drowning and submersion”; and so on (WHO2010). The death toll dueto unexpected accidents include victims of earthquakes or tsunami and those whodied of food poisoning during their normal lives, and the totalfigure reached as highas 38,306 in 2015. In other words, among annual deaths in Japan, about three out of ahundred are due to unexpected accidents. As we will explain later, unexpectedaccidents in societal safety sciences are not just natural disasters or accidents, butthey also include a wide range of events like terrorism, war, influenza pandemics,and drug toxicity. Reducing the number of deaths caused by unexpected accidents isone of the primary targets of societal safety sciences.MHLW translated“transport accidents”by WHO to the Japanese phrase“trafficaccidents”commonly used narrowly for accidents involving automobiles (trafficaccidents on roads). The wide meaning of traffic accidents in Japan also includesthose with railway, aircraft, and watercraft.“Vital Statistics of Japan”by MHLWuses the phrase“traffic accident”in this wide sense. In this book, we use the wordtraffic accidents to mean automobile accidents in the narrow sense and stick to theoriginal phrase by WHO“transport accidents”for all transportation-related accidentsincluding automobiles.The historic transition of deaths due to unexpected accidents shows an annualcount about 20,000, i.e., about 2% of the total deaths, in the late 1800s to the early1930s but jumped above 30,000 before World War II. During the high-growthperiod of the mid-1950s to mid-1970s, the large number of traffic accidents pushedthe deaths by unexpected accidents up, and in the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, thecount exceeded 40,000. In the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, the number dropped toabout 30,000; however, it came back up to about 40,000 in the later 1990s and hasstayed at this level till today.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

301 ABE s

Penerbit

Singapore : Springer Nature., 2019

Deskripsi Fisik

228 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9789811327759

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301

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Sociology and Anthropology, Society

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