Included in this volume are the papers from the 47th Annual Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, held in Lisbon, Portugal, on September 22-24, 2003. The 40 papers are grouped according to the following subjects: occupant protection; the Blue Ribbon Panel on Depowered and Advanced Airbags - status report on airbag performance; pedestrians; older drivers; young drivers; driver risky behaviors; injury scaling; child passenger safety; head and neck injuries; driver and crash characteristics and injury; vehicle compatibility issues; the present status of graduated licensing in the United States; and the Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN). There are 13 scientific posters included after the papers. For abstracts of the papers and the scientific posters presented at the conference see C 31268 - C 31320.
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