Road traffic fatalities in Qatar, Jordan and the UAE: estimates using regression analysis and the relationship with economic growth

Bener, Abdulbari; Hussain, Syed Jaffar; Almalki, Muhammad Abdullah M; Shotar, M. M.; Al-Said, Moheeb; Jadaan, Khair

doi:10.26719/2010.16.3.318

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“…In rapidly developing economies, increases in mobility and vehicle penetration often exceed safety-focused improvements in infrastructure, traffic policy enforcement, and norms around road safety (Bener et al, 2010; Kopits & Cropper, 2005; Winston, Rineer, Menon, & Baker, 1999). It is in these contexts that multi-sectoral road safety responses are essential.…”

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Road safety perspectives among employees of a multinational corporation in urban India: local context for global injury prevention

Jacoby

Winston

Richmond

2017

International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion

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In rapidly developing economies, like urban India, where road traffic injury rates are among the world’s highest, the corporate workplace offers a non-traditional venue for road safety interventions. In partnership with a major multinational corporation with a large Indian workforce, this study aimed to elicit local employee perspectives on road safety to inform a global corporate health platform. The safety attitudes and behaviors of 75 employees were collected through self-report survey and focus groups in the multinational corporation offices in Bangalore and Pune. Analysis of these data uncovered incongruity between employee knowledge of safety strategies and their enacted safety behaviors and identified local preference for interventions and policy-level actions. The methods modeled by this study offer a straightforward approach for eliciting employee perspective for local road safety interventions that fit within a global strategy to improve employee health. Study findings suggest that multinational corporations can employ a range of strategies to improve the road traffic safety of their employees in settings like urban India including: implementing corporate traffic safety policy, making local infrastructure changes to improve road and traffic conditions, advocating for road safety with government partners and providing employees with education and access to safety equipment and safe transportation options.

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Road safety perspectives among employees of a multinational corporation in urban India: local context for global injury prevention

Jacoby

Winston

Richmond

2017

International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion

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“…Since the discovery of oil, Qatar has experienced a rapid growth in socioeconomic status which resulted in high motorization rate that leads to increased MVCs. [ 12 ] Moreover, economic growth in Qatar has led to the remarkable increase in incidence of MVCs, occupational injuries, as well as assaults and stab injuries resulting in the death and the disability. [ 13 ] In 2001, one report from Qatar showed that in MVCs, the abdominal injury patients constituted 0.45% of total trauma admissions and 12.6% of all admitted cases to the surgical Intensive Care Unit (ICU).…”

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Frequency, causes and pattern of abdominal trauma: A 4-year descriptive analysis

Arumugam

Al-Hassani

El‐Menyar

et al. 2015

J Emerg Trauma Shock

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Background:The incidence of abdominal trauma is still underreported from the Arab Middle-East. We aimed to evaluate the incidence, causes, clinical presentation, and outcome of the abdominal trauma patients in a newly established trauma center.Materials and Methods:A retrospective analysis was conducted at the only level I trauma center in Qatar for the patients admitted with abdominal trauma (2008-2011). Patients demographics, mechanism of injury, pattern of organ injuries, associated extra-abdominal injuries, Injury Severity Score (ISS), Abbreviated Injury Scale, complications, length of Intensive Care Unit, and hospital stay, and mortality were reviewed.Results:A total of 6888 trauma patients were admitted to the hospital, of which 1036 (15%) had abdominal trauma. The mean age was 30.6 ± 13 years and the majority was males (93%). Road traffic accidents (61%) were the most frequent mechanism of injury followed by fall from height (25%) and fall of heavy object (7%). The mean ISS was 17.9 ± 10. Liver (36%), spleen (32%) and kidney (18%) were most common injured organs. The common associated extra-abdominal injuries included chest (35%), musculoskeletal (32%), and head injury (24%). Wound infection (3.8%), pneumonia (3%), and urinary tract infection (1.4%) were the frequently observed complications. The overall mortality was 8.3% and late mortality was observed in 2.3% cases mainly due to severe head injury and sepsis. The predictors of mortality were head injury, ISS, need for blood transfusion, and serum lactate.Conclusion:Abdominal trauma is a frequent diagnosis in multiple trauma and the presence of extra-abdominal injuries and sepsis has a significant impact on the outcome.

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“…However, some recent time-series studies have not shown the inverted U-shaped Kuznets Curve . Longitudinal studies in Oman (Al-Reesi et al 2013 ) and Qatar (Bener et al 2010 ), both high-income countries in the past three decades, actually found RTFs increased monotonically with economic growth. A cross-sectional exploration (Bhalla and Mohan, in preparation for publication) using recent RTFs data for all countries based on the 2010 Global Burden of Disease Study (Global Road Safety Facility et al 2014 ) and the 2013 WHO Global Status Report on Road Safety (World Health Organization 2013 ) showed no clear relationship between gross national income (GNI) per capita and RTFs but revealed large variations of RTF status for countries of similar GNI per capita.…”

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Economic development and road traffic fatalities in Russia: analysis of federal regions 2004–2011

Paichadze

Hyder

et al. 2015

Inj. Epidemiol.

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BackgroundThe relationship between economic development and road safety at sub-national level has not been well established. This study aims to assess the relationships between economic growth (measured by gross regional product (GRP)) and road traffic fatalities (RTFs) and crash fatality ratio (CFR) at sub-national level in Russia.MethodsWe used published secondary data on annual RTFs and CFR obtained from the traffic police and socioeconomic development indicators from the statistics department for each Russian federal region (referred to in Russia as “subject”) for 2004–2011. We used multivariate fixed effects models for longitudinal data to examine the GRP-RTF and the GRP-CFR relationships excluding regions with extreme values. Time (in years) and a set of relevant socioeconomic variables (territory, population, number of privately owned cars, number of public buses, length of public motor roads, number of physicians, and budget expenditure on health care and physical wellness) were also included as covariates in the models.ResultsThe RTF rates decreased monotonically over time as GRP per capita increased in 66 studied regions during 2004–2011. This relationship was mainly explained by the number of privately owned cars and partially explained by year dummy variables, number of buses, and number of physicians. CFR also decreased monotonically as GRP per capita increased in 67 studied regions. This relationship between economic growth and CFR was fully explained by secular time trends. The year dummy effects on CFR were not mediated by other socioeconomic variables included in the study.ConclusionsFor the period of 2004–2011 in Russia, the reduction in RTFs is mostly explained by increasing the number of private cars, while the reduction of CFR is mostly associated with year-effects suggesting a process of diffusion of knowledge, which is not solely dominated by economic growth.

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Road traffic fatalities in Qatar, Jordan and the UAE: estimates using regression analysis and the relationship with economic growth

Cited by 23 publications

References 7 publications

Road safety perspectives among employees of a multinational corporation in urban India: local context for global injury prevention

Road safety perspectives among employees of a multinational corporation in urban India: local context for global injury prevention

Frequency, causes and pattern of abdominal trauma: A 4-year descriptive analysis

Economic development and road traffic fatalities in Russia: analysis of federal regions 2004–2011

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