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...

conclusions close attention to these predictors may aid officials in planning effective training programs and prevention measures. these predictors can also be used in the legislation of traffic laws and regulations and managerial plans of hospitals. patients and methods this longitudinal study reviewed 15,331 injuries in 21 hospitals in the city of tabriz from march 2012 to march 2013. the req...

background and aim: injuries from traffic accidents are a major public health problem, and the third leading cause of mortality in people aged 1 to 40 years. each year 31.8 persons per hundred thousands of iranians are killed in car accidents. neighboring of north khorasan province with razavi khorasan, a province with a lot of pilgrims caused a large number of passengers travel via north khora...

Data on road traffic accident (RTA) injuries and their outcome are scarce in Pakistan. This study assessed patterns of RTA injuries reported in Rawalpindi city using standard surveillance methods. All RTA injury patients presenting to emergency departments of 3 tertiary care facilities from July 2007 to June 2008 were included. RTA injuries (n = 19 828) accounted for 31.7% of all injuries. Amon...

An estimated 1.2 million people worldwide are estimated to be killed and 50 million injured in road traffic accidents each year. Statistics reveal that every 3 minutes a child is killed on the world’s roads, and more than 80% of road deaths occur in low and middle income countries. According to some estimates, it is expected that, in the year 2020:  road deaths will increase by 80%;  road tra...

OBJECTIVE To use a range of existing information sources to develop a national snapshot of the burden of road traffic injuries in one developing country-Iran. METHODS The distribution of deaths was estimated by using data from the national death registration system, hospital admissions and outpatient visits from a time-limited hospital registry in 12 of 30 provinces, and injuries that receive...

Evidence suggests that the present and projected global burden of road-traffic injuries is disproportionately borne by countries that can least afford to meet the health service, economic, and societal challenges posed. Although the evidence base on which these estimates are made remains somewhat precarious in view of the limited data systems in most low-income and middle-income countries (as p...

Road traffic injuries continue to exert a huge burden on the health care system in Kenya. Few studies on the pattern of road traffic injuries have been conducted in Kenya. We therefore carried out a retrospective study to determine the pattern of road traffic injuries seen in a public hospital in Naivasha district, Kenya. A retrospective study on surgical patients admitted at Naivasha District ...