BACKGROUND Traffic injuries are an important problem in low income countries. In Uganda road traffic is the largest single cause of injury in Kampala; pedestrians, and children are most affected. Pedestrian injury affects school children in Uganda. OBJECTIVE To determine the overall risk of pedestrian traffic injury among school children in Kawempe, Uganda. METHODS A cohort was assembled at...

Road traffic injuries affect the economy, health and quality of life of the people of Mozambique. Current road safety programmes are inadequate and inefficient given the magnitude of the problem. Data reported on road traffic crashes in the period 1990 to 2000 from the National Institute for Road Safety, the traffic police and the Central Hospital of Maputo were reviewed. The burden of road tra...

Purpose: Road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death under 30 years, causing over a million deaths every year. Helmets, seat-belts and child-restraints have an important role in death and injury prevention. Our purpose was to analyze how safety measures relate to pediatric polytrauma severity in road traffic injury. Methods: A retrospective observational study was conducted, including ...

BACKGROUND The mechanism and pattern of vascular injury vary between different populations. The commonest mechanism of vascular injury in civilian practice is road traffic collisions. We aimed to prospectively study the incidence, detailed mechanism and anatomical distribution of hospitalized vascular trauma patients following road traffic collisions in a high-income developing country. METHO...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to examine the extent of death and injuries among the 0-17 years of age group recorded in the official road traffic injury statistics. METHODS This is a record-based study covering a 5-year-period (2003-2007) using the annual records of national road traffic injury statistics in Turkey. RESULTS The 0-17 age group accounted for 10.9% of deaths and 20.1% of injurie...

RESEARCH QUESTION What is the pattern of injuries among non-fatal cases of road traffic accidents? OBJECTIVE To study the pattern of injuries among non-fatal cases of road traffic accidents. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Nagpur, a city in central India. PARTICIPANTS 423 non-fatal cases of road traffic accidents reporting for treatment to Indira Gandhi Medical College, Nagp...

conclusions close attention to these predictors may aid officials in planning effective training programs and prevention measures. these predictors can also be used in the legislation of traffic laws and regulations and managerial plans of hospitals. patients and methods this longitudinal study reviewed 15,331 injuries in 21 hospitals in the city of tabriz from march 2012 to march 2013. the req...

frustrating situations that impede or prevent some form of ongoing goal-directed behavior are believed to act as a catalyst for aggressive behavior. from social learning approaches aggression is a learned response through observation or imitation of socially relevant others. many psychological factors are at play in aggressive driving and many may prove difficult to control. human beings are na...