Table 3 |
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Evidence of impact of New Home New Life on the number of mine/UXO events before and after 1994, upper limb (tampering) injuries after 1994 and inappropriate attitudes and practices |
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| Listen to New Home New Life |
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| yes |
no |
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| Mine/UXO events 1. Cases 1979–93 (per 10000 person-years) |
21 (6.802) |
9 (1.898) |
| 2. Cases 1994–97 (per 10000 person years) Risk of a case occurring after 1994: OR 0.28, 95%CI 0.07–0.99 (in urban mined areas) |
9 (14.577) |
14 (14.763) |
| 3. Upper limb injuries as proportion of all injuries among survivors of mine accidents
after 1994 Risk of an upper limb injury after 1994: OR 0.12, 95%CI 0.02–0.82 (in urban areas) |
3/14 (21%) |
11/16 (69%) |
| Inappropriate attitudes and practices (search for metal, consider non-qualified person
brave if go into mined area) |
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| 4. With easy radio access (%) |
377/4207 (9%) |
65/423 (15.4%) |
| 5. Difficult radio access (%) Risk of inappropriate behaviour, stratified by ease of access to radios OR 0.61, 95%CI 0.44–0.84 |
2/83 (2.4%) |
378/4216 (9%) |
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Andersson and Mitchell International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:1 doi:10.1186/1476-072X-5-1 |
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