Background: Evaluation of intra-city roads in terms of environmental factors of motor vehicle injuries can help us to better identify these factors and the share of each of the factors in injuries. Therefore, this study was conducted to determine the high injury areas and the risk factors of motor vehicle crashes resulting in injury and death in Tehran, the capital city of Iran, from November...

background and aims: traffic crashes are multi-factorial consequences caused by human factors, technical issues and environmental conditions. the present study aimed to determine epidemiology of urban traffic injuries in iran and role of some human risk factors in occurrence of such outcomes in 2010. materials and methods: through a descriptive cross-sectional study, the records of 515205 injur...

conclusions the findings of this study show that the need for early rehabilitation in the hospital phase of care for rti victims is needed. knowledge about the barriers precluding nurses from early rehabiltiation of rti patients and facilitators that can help health care workers and policy makers eliminate the barriers precluding early rehabilitation can help health care workers, especially nur...

background: injuries and fatalities from road traffic injuries are global public health concerns, and a major problem in the iran. this study aimed to explore strategies to control road traffic injuries (rti) in iran. methods: we conducted a qualitative study to explore possible ways to reduce the occurrence of road traffic injuries in iran in 2016. interviewees were purposively sampled from va...

Background and Objectives: The Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) has the third highest road traffic fatality rate in the world. This article evaluates the epidemiology of road injuries and some of its main control factors in Iran and compares them with other countries of the EMR.   Methods: This study was conducted to analyze and compare traffic injuries resulting in mortality using secondar...

Annually, more than 1 million people were killed in road traffic accidents worldwide every year and an uncounted number were severe injured. In 2012 fatal injuries caused by road traffic accidents are under the top ten lists of causes of death in the world. It´s expected that in the near future road traffic accidents become one of the main causes of death in the world. Most of these fatal injur...

Abstract Introduction: The increasing rate of road traffic injuries have turned into a noticeable and critical danger threatening lives of people in different countries around the world. This study is done to determine epidemiological pattern and mortality rate trend of road traffic injuries. Methodology: In this cross-sectional study, the epidemiological pattern of mortality related to r...

conclusions young men form the target group for possible interventions to decrease the burden of trauma following falls and traffic accidents. materials and methods in a cross-sectional study, 19530 trauma cases admitted to the emergency department and hospital wards of shohada university hospital during 2007-2008 were assessed. results of the 19530 trauma cases, 14960(76.7%) were males. mean (...