Estimating the burden of road traffic injuries among children and adolescents in urban South Asia

AA Hyder, OH Amach, N Garg, MT Labinjo - Health policy, 2006 - Elsevier
Over a million people died from road traffic injuries (RTI) globally in the year 2000 and as
many as 50 million were injured. Yet there has been little work focused on the South Asia …

Road traffic injuries: a major global public health crisis

BR Sharma - Public health, 2008 - Elsevier
Evidence suggests that the present and projected global burden of road traffic injuries is
borne disproportionately by countries that can least afford to meet the health service …

Analysis of fatal road traffic accidents in a coastal township of South India

T Kanchan, V Kulkarni, SM Bakkannavar… - Journal of forensic and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Road traffic accidents (RTAs) are important causes of mortality and morbidity due to the
increasing number of vehicles, changes in lifestyle and the risk behaviours among general …

Road traffic related mortality in Vietnam: evidence for policy from a national sample mortality surveillance system

AD Ngo, C Rao, N Phuong Hoa, DG Hoy… - BMC public health, 2012 - Springer
Abstract Background Road traffic injuries (RTIs) are among the leading causes of mortality in
Vietnam. However, mortality data collection systems in Vietnam in general and for RTIs in …

[HTML][HTML] Basic characteristics of road traffic deaths in China

X Zhang, YAO Hongyan, HU Guoqing… - Iranian journal of …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background This study is to report characteristics of people killed in road traffic crashes and
to describe major patterns of traffic crashes in China. Methods: Descriptive and inferential …

The injury scale–a valuable tool for forensic documentation of trauma

BR Sharma - Journal of clinical forensic medicine, 2005 - Elsevier
An accurate method for quantitatively summarizing injury severity has many potential
applications. The ability to predict outcome from trauma (ie, mortality) is perhaps the most …

[HTML][HTML] Epidemiology of road traffic accident deaths in children in Chandigarh zone of North West India

D Singh, SP Singh, M Kumaran, S Goel - Egyptian journal of forensic …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The fatalities from Road Traffic Accidents (RTA) constitute a major cause of
unnatural deaths among children in Chandigarh zone of North West India. The …

Aetiological spectrum, injury characteristics and treatment outcome of head injury patients at Bugando Medical Centre in north-western Tanzania

PL Chalya, ES Kanumba, JB Mabula, G Giiti… - Tanzania Journal of …, 2011 - ajol.info
Head injury is considered as a major health problem that is a frequent cause of death and
disability and makes considerable demands on health services. A cross-sectional study was …

The epidemiology of hospital-referred head injury in Northern Nigeria

US Jasper, MC Opara, EB Pyiki… - Journal of Scientific …, 2014 - eprints.ditdo.in
Aims: This study was aimed at defining the peculiar demographic and associated risk factors
of head injury. Study Design: This was a retrospective study Place and Duration of Study …

Pattern of injuries in road traffic accidents at Chitradurga Karnataka: An autopsy based study

S Katageri, RB Sharma… - Journal of Indian …, 2015 - indianjournals.com
During twenty month study period a total of 161 cases of medico-legal autopsies were
conducted out of which 52 cases were of fatal road traffic accident at the mortuary of …