road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death and disability in the world. so, the aim of current study was investigated the epidemiologic survey of road traffic injuries in patients admitted in al-jalil hospital in aq-qala. this study was conducted on 5774 patients during 2007-2012, to evaluate the profile of 2784 injury patients due to road traffic accidents, admitted in al- jalil hosp...

Annually, more than 1 million people were killed in road traffic accidents worldwide every year and an uncounted number were severe injured. In 2012 fatal injuries caused by road traffic accidents are under the top ten lists of causes of death in the world. It´s expected that in the near future road traffic accidents become one of the main causes of death in the world. Most of these fatal injur...

background and aims: traffic crashes are multi-factorial consequences caused by human factors, technical issues and environmental conditions. the present study aimed to determine epidemiology of urban traffic injuries in iran and role of some human risk factors in occurrence of such outcomes in 2010. materials and methods: through a descriptive cross-sectional study, the records of 515205 injur...

objective : to determine the epidemiological characteristics of the road traffic injuries (rtis) in guilan province, northern iran. methods: this study was a cross-sectional study which included all of rtis admitted to medical centers of guilan province (northern iran) during 2012. icd-10 was used as diagnostic criteria. demographic variables also injury circumstance and in hospital variables s...

Background and aims: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of enforcement of new traffic laws on the fatal and non- fatal injury rates in Iran. Methods: In a longitudinal, interventional controlled trial study, all subjects with history of fatal and non-fatal injuries were studied. Their injuries were caused by six risky violations (unauthorized speed, illegal overtaking, red traffic light c...

globally around 38 million people die each year as a result of non communicable diseases (ncds) in which 42% (~ 16 million) are premature deaths (below the age of 70). nine voluntary global targets were set by world health organization to control above mentioned premature deaths. iran added 4 more targets to it, including 20% reduction in the mortality rate due to road traffic injuries. the nee...

conclusions considering the high occurrence of the mortality and the injuries of the rtis compared to that of the other types of accidents, more attention to rtis in planning and interventions seems necessary. background road traffic injuries (rtis) are the leading cause of injuries and the second cause of mortality in iran. objectives the aim of this study was to investigate the epidemiologica...

background and aims: this study aimed to evaluate the effect of enforcement of new traffic laws on the fatal and non- fatal injury rates in iran. methods: in a longitudinal, interventional controlled trial study, all subjects with history of fatal and non-fatal injuries were studied. their injuries were caused by six risky violations (unauthorized speed, illegal overtaking, red traffic light cr...

Background and Objectives: The Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) has the third highest road traffic fatality rate in the world. This article evaluates the epidemiology of road injuries and some of its main control factors in Iran and compares them with other countries of the EMR.   Methods: This study was conducted to analyze and compare traffic injuries resulting in mortality using secondar...