Quantifying the Underestimated Burden of Road Traffic Mortality in Mexico: A Comparison of Three Approaches

Hı́jar, Martha; Chandran, Aruna; Pérez‐Núñez, Ricardo; Lunnen, Jeffrey C.; Rodríguez-Hernández, Jorge Martín; Hyder, Adnan A.

doi:10.1080/15389588.2011.631065

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“…This analysis is limited by the quality of data collection and reporting to the SIM national database. The accuracy of death certificate and hospital-coded death data has long been recognized as limited (Glasser 1981;Lu et al 2001), in particular with road traffic deaths (Harris 1990;Hijar et al 2012;Lapidus et al 1994). Previous studies from Brazil have shown that cause-ofdeath coding in the SIM database can be limited; when reviewing coded deaths from the southern city of Porto Alegre, Fajardo et al (2009) found that nearly 13 percent needed to be recoded by researchers.…”

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Road Traffic Deaths in Brazil: Rising Trends in Pedestrian and Motorcycle Occupant Deaths

Chandran

Sousa

Guo

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Traffic Injury Prevention

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Road Traffic Deaths in Brazil: Rising Trends in Pedestrian and Motorcycle Occupant Deaths

Chandran

Sousa

Guo

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Traffic Injury Prevention

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“…http://www.sinais.salud.gob.mx/estadis ticasportema.html, accedido el 17/May/2012). Sin embargo, estas altas cifras podrían estar subestimadas en alrededor de un 30%, si se considera el número de personas cuya causa de muerte no es bien registrada o es clasificada en códigos inespecíficos 9,10,11 .…”

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El estado de las lesiones causadas por el tránsito en México: evidencias para fortalecer la estrategia mexicana de seguridad vial

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Mediante la revisión de información secundaria oficial, publicaciones científicas y el análisis de la ENSANut-2012, este trabajo busca proveer una visión integral de la magnitud actual de las lesiones causadas por el tránsito (LCT) en México y analizar críticamente la respuesta social organizada. Las altas tasas de choques, lesiones, muertes y discapacidad atribuidas a este problema de salud pública, representan un elevado costo para la sociedad mexicana, en especial para los hogares. Se discute cómo la respuesta mexicana se ha enfocado a los automovilistas, dejando fuera a usuarios vulnerables de la vía pública y se ha privilegiado la implementación de estrategias poco efectivas. A pesar de que se dispone de legislación para los principales factores de riesgo, se ha descuidado su correcta aplicación. La estrategia mexicana podría fortalecerse implementando estrategias de movilidad seguras, equitativas, saludables y sostenibles para los diferentes actores de la vía pública. A pesar de los avances que se han dado en términos de prevención de LCT, existen aún retos y oportunidades para el país.

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“…South Korea reports road fatalities immediately after a traffic incident or within 30 days as a result of an incident, whereas Chile informs deaths that occur immediately after an incident and up to 24 hours afterwards, resulting in estimated underreporting of 500 fatalities annually (CONASET 2012). Similar to Mexico's reported underestimation of road traffic mortalities (Hijar et al 2012), Chile also likely undercounts traffic-related deaths and injuries due to inconsistencies between police and hospital records. To represent land use characteristics in the zones of analysis in Santiago, we use data from the National Statistics Institute (INE), and a spatial dataset from the Chilean police.…”

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Children at risk: A comparison of child pedestrian traffic collisions in Santiago, Chile, and Seoul, South Korea

Blázquez

Lee

Zegras

2016

Traffic Injury Prevention

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Objective: We examine and compare pedestrian-vehicle collisions and injury outcomes involving school-age children between 5 and 18 years of age in the capital cities of Santiago, Chile and Seoul, South Korea. Methods:We conduct descriptive analysis of the child pedestrian-vehicle collision (P-VC) data (904 collisions for Santiago, and 3,505 for Seoul) reported by the police between 2010 and 2011. We also statistically analyze factors associated with child P-VCs, both by incident severity and age group using three regression models: negative binomial, probit, and spatial lag models.Results: Descriptive statistics suggest that child pedestrians in Seoul have a higher risk of being involved in traffic crashes than their counterparts in Santiago. However, in Seoul a greater proportion of children are unharmed as a result of these incidents, while more child pedestrians are killed in Santiago. Younger children in Seoul suffer more injuries from P-VCs than in Santiago. The majority of P-VCs in both cities tend to occur in the afternoon and evening, at intersections in Santiago and at midblock locations in Seoul. Our model results suggest that the resident population of children is positively associated with P-VCs in both cities, and school concentrations apparently increase P-VC risk among older children in Santiago. Bus stops are associated with higher P-VCs in Seoul, while subway stations relate with higher P-VCs among older children in Santiago. Zone-level land use mix was negatively related to child P-VCs in Seoul, but not in Santiago. Arterial roads are associated with fewer P-VCs, especially for younger children in both cities. A share of collector roads is associated with increased P-VCs in Seoul, but fewer PVCs in Santiago. Hilliness is related to fewer P-VCs in both cities. Differences in these model results for Santiago and Seoul warrant additional analysis as do the differences in results across model type (Negative Binomial versus Spatial Lag models). Conclusions:To reduce child P-VCs, this study suggests the need to assess: subway station and bus stop area conditions in Santiago and Seoul, respectively; areas with high density of schools in Santiago; areas with greater concentrations of children in both cities; and collector roads in Seoul.

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Quantifying the Underestimated Burden of Road Traffic Mortality in Mexico: A Comparison of Three Approaches

Abstract: Introduction: We present a novel multistep technique to estimate the actual burden of road traffic mortality in

Cited by 39 publications

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Road Traffic Deaths in Brazil: Rising Trends in Pedestrian and Motorcycle Occupant Deaths

Road Traffic Deaths in Brazil: Rising Trends in Pedestrian and Motorcycle Occupant Deaths

El estado de las lesiones causadas por el tránsito en México: evidencias para fortalecer la estrategia mexicana de seguridad vial

Children at risk: A comparison of child pedestrian traffic collisions in Santiago, Chile, and Seoul, South Korea

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