Review Article: Road traffic injuries in India: A review of the literature

Garg, Nitin; Hyder, Adnan A.

doi:10.1080/14034940510032149

Cited by 43 publications

(31 citation statements)

References 19 publications

(28 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Deaths in this age-group are likely to cause substantial household deprivation from the loss of a key wage earner [25]. Our mortality rates are consistent with the results of several local studies in India, including showing that a marked excess in young and middle aged males [26].…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 80%

Unintentional Injury Mortality in India, 2005: Nationally Representative Mortality Survey of 1.1 Million Homes

et al. 2012

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Background: Unintentional injuries are an important cause of death in India. However, no reliable nationally representative estimates of unintentional injury deaths are available. Thus, we examined unintentional injury deaths in a nationally representative mortality survey. Methods: Trained field staff interviewed a living relative of those who had died during 2001-03. The verbal autopsy reports were sent to two of the130 trained physicians, who independently assigned an ICD-10 code to each death. Discrepancies were resolved through reconciliation and adjudication. Proportionate cause specific mortality was used to produce national unintentional injury mortality estimates based on United Nations population and death estimates. Results: In 2005, unintentional injury caused 648 000 deaths (7% of all deaths; 58/100 000 population). Unintentional injury mortality rates were higher among males than females, and in rural versus urban areas. Road traffic injuries (185 000 deaths; 29% of all unintentional injury deaths), falls (160 000 deaths, 25%) and drowning (73 000 deaths, 11%) were the three leading causes of unintentional injury mortality, with fire-related injury causing 5% of these deaths. The highest unintentional mortality rates were in those aged 70years or older (410/100 000).

show abstract

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 80%

Unintentional Injury Mortality in India, 2005: Nationally Representative Mortality Survey of 1.1 Million Homes

et al. 2012

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…A study in rural Haryana reported 8% prevalence of agriculture related injuries. 8 Prevalence of repeated injury is around eight percent. Occurrence of repeated injury suggests the persistent reckless behavior or persistence of risk element in the surrounding, which has significant policy implication as there is potential for possible initiative of risk reduction.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…7 Several studies were conducted to explore the injury epidemiology around the globe. [8][9][10] However extreme difficulty lies in relating the findings due to heterogeneity of measurement methods and statistical operations. The Pondicherry study that share relatively similar socio-demographic profile reported similar high prevalence for those 18 years and older and among men.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An epidemiological study of injury in a rural community in Bangladesh

Chowdhury

Karim

Rahman³

et al. 2016

Bangladesh Med Res Counc Bull

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Injuries are a focus of public health practice because they pose a serious health threat, occur frequently and are preventable. The evidence regarding injury, its contributing factor and its consequence in rural population of Bangladesh is scarce. Present study aimed to assess the epidemiology of injury in a rural area. The study was conducted in the 'Bairag' Union of Anwara upazilla in Chittagong district of Bangladesh. Data of 6256 individuals were collected from 1016 households. Three structured and standardized questionnaires were used for data collection. The questionnaires were pretested and validated prior to final survey. Severity of injury was assessed based on the number of days with restricted activity and consequences of injury were considered as a measure of severity of injury. A total of 6 people died due to injury in last one year in the survey, the death tolls to 0.096% (95% CI 0.037%-0.199%). A total of 392 experienced an injury that at least hampered one day's routine activity. Crude prevalence of injury over last one year is calculated to be 6.27% (95% CI 5.69%-6.89%). Of injured subject's majority (77.2%) were aged between 10 to 59 years, 73% were male, 55.6% were of lower class and among them 7.9 % suffered multiple injuries. More than 80% of the incident leading to injury happened during the day, (8 am to 6 pm). Daytime injury mostly occurs in afternoon. The mechanism of injury of 30% subjects were road accident, of 29.5% subjects was slip, trip or fall. In 17.9 % victims' mechanism of injury was collision with a person or object. Around 10% had deep cut, 1.4% had superficial cut, and 3.3 % patient had burn through contact with heat. Among the injured only 19.2% escaped any physical consequence, 27.2% suffered from decrease in work capacity, 48.1% developed temporary disability, 3.8% developed permanent disability, and 1.2% suffered disfiguration.

show abstract

“…They are the most common cause of head injuries (64%) resulting in varying levels of disabilities and death of the victims before reaching a hospital. [2][3][4][5][6] RTAs are a significant burden on the health care system in India and the estimated out of pocket medical and related expenditure is reported to range between 10,518 to 10,905 INR.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Road safety and the community: an awareness survey among the coastal population of Karnataka

Shetty

Pahwa

Vibha

et al. 2017

Int J Community Med Public Health

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Background: Road traffic accidents (RTAs) pose a significant burden on the health care system in India with high out of pocket medical expenditure. Awareness about this public health problem is necessary to combat it and this study was carried out to assess knowledge and practice towards road safety among the adult population in the coastal region of Udupi taluk in Karnataka. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was carried out among 381 adults aged 18 years and above residing in the region for more than one year. A semi-structured questionnaire was used to assess their knowledge and practice towards road safety measures. Results: Most of the participants were in the age bracket of 18-44 years (61.4%), were females (65.1 %) and had up to 10 years of schooling. Overall knowledge was found to be low with only 30% reporting good knowledge. As regards practice, drivers fared better with a good majority (87%) reporting desirable practice. Younger age (OR=0.57, 95% CI, 0.36-0.92), male gender (OR=0.14, 95% CI, 0.08-0.23), higher level of schooling (OR=0.32, 95% CI, 0.20 -0.50) and knowing to drive (OR=0.04, 95% CI, 0.02-0.07) were found to be significantly associated with a greater level of knowledge regarding road safety measures. Conclusions: The study showed inadequate knowledge and poor road safety practices among good number of participants. This emphasises the need for a customized community based awareness campaign on road safety measures coupled with stringent legislation measures to bring about the desired change.

show abstract

Review Article: Road traffic injuries in India: A review of the literature

Abstract: There is lack of population-based data on road traffic injuries in India and there is large heterogeneity in the published data. This is an important research agenda for the country. Immediate steps are required to curb this problem to limit the loss of life and resources.

Cited by 43 publications

References 19 publications

Unintentional Injury Mortality in India, 2005: Nationally Representative Mortality Survey of 1.1 Million Homes

Unintentional Injury Mortality in India, 2005: Nationally Representative Mortality Survey of 1.1 Million Homes

An epidemiological study of injury in a rural community in Bangladesh

Road safety and the community: an awareness survey among the coastal population of Karnataka

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About