Bicycle helmets: review of effectiveness (No.30)
Table of contents
- Report authors
- Project brief
- Background
- Objectives
- Summary
- Introduction
- Methods employed
- Section 1: The epidemiology of bicycle injuries in Great Britain
- Pedal bicyclist casualties in Britain
- Head injuries
- Bicycling exposure
- Bicycle helmet wearing in Great Britain
- Key points
- Section 2: Bicycle helmets standards
- How bicycle helmets work
- Comparisons of standards
- Key points
- Section 3: Observational Studies
- Settings and participants
- Methods and study design
- Design
- Setting
- Definitions of injury
- Other factors
- Results
- Rating criteria
- Key points
- Section 4: Evaluated intervention studies related to the promotion of bicycle helmets
- The interventions
- The evaluations
- Quality of the evidence
- Overall comments
- Key points
- Section 5: Bicycle helmet legislation: evaluated studies and detailed case studies
- (1) Evaluated studies
- (2) Case studies
- Case study 1: Victoria, Australia
- Case study 2: British Columbia, Canada
- Section 6: Barriers and facilitators of helmet use
- Settings and participants
- Study type and data collection methods
- Results
- Perception of risk
- Apperance/Peer Pressure
- Parent influence
- Discomfort
- Cost
- Legislation
- The Intervention studies
- Key points
- Section 7: Opinion Pieces
- The main arguments used in the debate
- For
- Against
- Table Section 7 summary of the main arguments employed
- The nature of the debate
- Key points
- Section 8: Discussion
- Section 9: Conclusions
- Bicycle helmet review
- References for Introduction and Section 1
- References for Section 3
- References for Section 4
- References for Section 5
- References for Section 6
- References for Section 7
- References for Sections 8 and 9
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