Journal article
Road traffic injury mortality and morbidity by country development status, 2011-2017
Chinese journal of traumatology, Vol.24(2), pp.88-93
03/01/2021
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjtee.2021.01.007
PMCID: PMC8071733
PMID: 33526264
Abstract
This research examined road traffic injury mortality and morbidity disparities across of country development status, and discussed the possibility of reducing country disparities by various actions to accelerate the pace of achieving Sustainable Development Goals target 3.6 – to halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents by 2020.
Data for road traffic mortality, morbidity, and socio-demographic index (SDI) were extracted by country from the estimates of the Global Burden of Disease study, and the implementation of the three types of national actions (legislation, prioritized vehicle safety standards, and trauma-related post-crash care service) were extracted from the Global Status Report on Road Safety by World Health Organization. We fitted joinpoint regression analysis to identify and quantify the significant rate changes from 2011 to 2017.
Age-adjusted road traffic mortality decreased substantially for all the five SDI categories from 2011 to 2017 (by 7.52%–16.08%). Age-adjusted road traffic mortality decreased significantly as SDI increased in the study time period, while age-adjusted morbidity generally increased as SDI increased. Subgroup analysis by road user yielded similar results, but with two major differences during the study period of 2011 to 2017: (1) pedestrians in the high SDI countries experienced the lowest mortality (1.68–1.90 per 100,000 population) and morbidity (110.45–112.72 per 100,000 population for incidence and 487.48–491.24 per 100,000 population for prevalence), and (2) motor vehicle occupants in the high SDI countries had the lowest mortality (4.07–4.50 per 100,000 population) but the highest morbidity (428.74–467.78 per 100,000 population for incidence and 1025.70–1116.60 per 100,000 population for prevalence). Implementation of the three types of national actions remained nearly unchanged in all five SDI categories from 2011 to 2017 and was consistently stronger in the higher SDI countries than in the lower SDI countries. Lower income nations comprise the heaviest burden of global road traffic injuries and deaths.
Global road traffic deaths would decrease substantially if the large mortality disparities across country development status were reduced through full implementation of proven national actions including legislation and law enforcement, prioritized vehicle safety standards and trauma-related post-crash care services.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Road traffic injury mortality and morbidity by country development status, 2011-2017
- Creators
- Jie-Yi He - Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha, 410078, ChinaWang-Xin Xiao - Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha, 410078, ChinaDavid C. Schwebel - University of Alabama at BirminghamMo-Tao Zhu - The Ohio State UniversityPei-Shan Ning - Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha, 410078, ChinaLi Li - The Ohio State UniversityXun-Jie Cheng - Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha, 410078, ChinaJun-Jie Hua - Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha, 410078, ChinaGuo-Qing Hu - Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha, 410078, China
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Chinese journal of traumatology, Vol.24(2), pp.88-93
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.cjtee.2021.01.007
- PMID
- 33526264
- PMCID
- PMC8071733
- NLM abbreviation
- Chin J Traumatol
- ISSN
- 1008-1275
- eISSN
- 1008-1275
- Publisher
- Elsevier B.V
- Number of pages
- 6
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/01/2021
- Academic Unit
- Research Administration
- Record Identifier
- 9984949466002771
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