869 Road traffic injuries in kenya: a hospital-based surveillance study

Epidemiological study of hospitalized road traffic injuries in Iran 2011

    Background: In Iran, Road Traffic Injuries (RTIs)  is the second-leading cause of deaths, and the first leading cause of  disability-adjusted life year, and has one of the highest rates of death (32.1 per 100 000 population) all over the world. This study’s aim was to investigate the epidemiological pattern and underlying components of hospitalized RTIs...

O10: Issues of Emergency Services in Road Traffic Injuries: a Qualitative Study in an Iranian Context

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Factors associated with severity of road traffic injuries, Thika, Kenya

BACKGROUND Road traffic injuries continue to exert a huge burden on the health care system in Kenya. Few studies on the severity of road traffic injuries have been conducted in Kenya. We carried out a cross-sectional study to determine factors associated with severity of road traffic injuries in a public hospital in Thika district, Kenya. METHODS Road crash victims attending the Thika distric...

Letter to Editor: The Importance of Designing a Preventable Deaths Instrument for Road Traffic Injuries in Pre-hospital Phase

Road traffic injuries in Mozambique.

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 Maputo were reviewed. The burden of road tra...