Traumatic Injuries in Developing Countries

Injuries: the neglected burden in developing countries.

a University of California at Berkeley, School of Public Health, 643 Ferdinand Avenue, El Granada, CA, United States of America (USA). b Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA. c Department of Orthopedic Surgery, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA, USA. d Surgical Implant Generation Network (SIGN), Richland, WA, USA. Correspond...

Traumatic injuries in developing countries: report from a nationwide cross-sectional survey of Sierra Leone.

OBJECTIVE To use a nationwide household survey tool to provide an estimate of injury prevalence, mechanisms of traumatic injuries, and number of injury-related deaths in a low-income country. DESIGN A randomized, cross-sectional nationwide survey using the Surgeons OverSeas Assessment of Surgical Need tool was conducted in 2012. SETTING Sierra Leone, Africa. PARTICIPANTS Three thousand se...

The neglected epidemic: road traffic injuries in developing countries.

[Road traffic injuries in developing countries: research and action agenda].

Road traffic injury (RTI) is the leading cause of death in persons aged 10-24 worldwide and accounts for about 15% of all male deaths. The burden of RTI is unevenly distributed amongst countries with over eighty-fold differences between the highest and lowest death rates. Thus the unequal risk of RTI occurring in the developing world, due to many reasons, including but not limited to rapid moto...

Injuries in developing countries: policy response needed now.

Anthony B. Zwil, Sam Forjuoh2, Shiva Murugusampillay3, Wilson Odero1y4 and Charlotte Wattsly ‘Health Policy Unit, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK; 2Department of Emergency Medicine, Center for Injury Research and Control, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; 3Department of p E zdemiology and Disease Control, ...