OBJECTIVE To determine the epidemiological characteristics of fatal traumatic accidents in patients referred to a hospital in Babol, Northern Iran. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study being performed during a 1-year period including all the dead trauma patients referred to Shahid Beheshti Hospital of Babol. We included all those patients who were transferred to our center to trauma and i...

In the United States, about 28 lives are lost daily in motor vehicle accidents that involve an alcohol-impaired driver. The conventional wisdom is that these accidents can be prevented through the use of strict traffic laws that are robustly enforced, though no consensus exists on the causal impact of these laws in reducing motor vehicle-related fatalities. This paper exploits quasi-random vari...

OBJECTIVE To establish the number of fatal pedal cycle accidents occurring in the Sheffield and Barnsley area, UK, and to investigate the possible benefits of helmet wearing by cyclists. DESIGN All medicolegal investigations into fatal road traffic accidents in the areas of Sheffield and Barnsley (total population 757,300) were reviewed to identify cases in which pedal cyclists had died. The ...

objective: to determine the economic burden of road traffic accidents (rtas) in patients admitted to a single center in south eastern iran. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted in amir-al-momenin hospital of zabol affiliated with zabol university of medical sciences during a 12-month period from april 2012 to april 2013. all the rtas patients who were admitted to our emergency depa...

The road network is salvation for economy of any region and social welfare. In observation of dynamicity on road networks and the sharp increase of traffic congestion, accidents, states, the road traffic management becomes more challenging research area. It is need to develop efficient and optimized road network management to prevent the traffic congestion and accidents in the present developme...

Background & Aims: Traffic accidents are a major cause of disability and mortality around the world and a major public health problem in developing and developed countries. The aim of this study was to assess the burden of road traffic accidents in Isfahan, Iran. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in Isfahan in 2010. Data were collected from death registration system to calculate...

Correspondence to: Grodno State Medical University, 80 Gorky Street, Grodno 230009, Belarus tel.: + 375 0152 70 18 84, fax: +375 0152 43 53 41, e-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2015 KBCSM, Zagreb e-mail: [email protected] • www.http//hrcak.srce.hr/acoholism Abstract – Russia has one of the world’s highest road traffic fatality rates. There is common belie...

background: to reduce traffic injuries in the country, health professionals should have accurate estimates of road traffic deaths. multiple and sometimes inconsistent statistics presented by organizations in charge create high degree of uncertainty for planners and decision makers. to achieve an accurate estimate, several methods are available. of them, capture-recapture method seems to be an a...

Road traffic accidents in Thailand, as is the case in some other developing countries, are on an alarming rising trend and pose a major loss for society. Statistics indicate that: a) the fatality rate from road traffic accidents increased more than fourfold during the past three decades; b) the number of fatalities caused by traffic accidents were 15,176 (1994 figure), and the number of injurie...