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Patterns of injuries and injury severity among hospitalized road traffic injury (RTI) patients in Bangladesh [PDF]

open access: yesHeliyon, 2021
Mohammad Hayatun Nabi   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Road traffic injuries in Colombia

Injury Control and Safety Promotion, 2003
Road traffic injuries are a leading public health problem in Colombia. Pedestrians are the most vulnerable road users, especially in the main urban centers of Bogotá, Medellin and Cali. Data analyzed in this report include official statistics from the National Police and the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences for 1996-2000, and ...
Deysi Yasmin, Rodríguez   +2 more
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Road traffic injuries in Mozambique

Injury Control and Safety Promotion, 2003
Road traffic injuries affect the economy, health and quality of life of the people of Mozambique. Current road safety programmes are inadequate and inefficient given the magnitude of the problem. Data reported on road traffic crashes in the period 1990 to 2000 from the National Institute for Road Safety, the traffic police and the Central Hospital of ...
Francelina, Romão   +9 more
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Road Traffic Injuries in Sharjah

International Journal of Epidemiology, 1981
Hospital data of all patients seen as a result of road traffic accident injuries are presented for the year 1977. A follow-up study was carried out in December 1978 of those patients admitted with fractures of the skull and spine. The road traffic accident rate was 810 per 100 000 and the death rate was 25 per 100 000.
J M, Weddell, A, McDougall
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Road traffic injuries: a stocktaking

Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology, 2008
Once we accept that road traffic injury control is a public health problem, and that we have an ethical responsibility to arrange for the safety of individuals, then it follows that health and medical professionals have to assume responsibility for participating in efforts to control this pandemic.
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Burden of Road Traffic Injuries in Turkey

Traffic Injury Prevention, 2012
Road traffic injuries (RTIs) are one of the leading causes of global deaths, contributing to 1.3 million lives lost each year. Although all regions are affected, low- and middle-income countries share a disproportionate burden. The significance of this public health threat is growing in Turkey, where current estimates show that 2.0 percent of all ...
P, Puvanachandra   +3 more
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Road traffic injuries in conflict areas

Injury Prevention, 2013
The United Nations (UN) has proclaimed the years 2011–2020 as the Decade of Action for Road Safety.1 The related public health actions are of particular importance to those living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).2 These actions are more focused on highly populated LMICs where development needs have been leading to increased motorisation ...
Luis Manuel Rosa, Sosa, Junaid A, Bhatti
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Injury to the Elderly in Road Traffic Accidents

The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, 1989
It is widely accepted that the elderly are more vulnerable to trauma than other groups. We examined our records of more than 6,000 accident cases, 312 over 65 years of age, and found that not only were older people more likely to sustain more serious injury in any given accident, but that the risk of life was significantly greater for a given injury ...
G F, McCoy, R A, Johnston, R B, Duthie
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Road traffic injuries in the province of Grosseto

Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene, 2007
Introduction. Road traffic injuries constitute a major public health issue. The Province of Grosseto is one of the territories most affected in the Region of Tuscany. The objective of the study, part of the Road Safety Provincial Council?s project, is to describe the epidemiology of the road accidents in order to contribute to the reduction of the ...
M A, Martiello   +7 more
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