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dc.contributor.authorTemizel, Selinen_US
dc.contributor.authorWunderlich, Roberten_US
dc.contributor.authorLeifels, Matsen_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-08T00:39:04Z-
dc.date.available2022-06-08T00:39:04Z-
dc.date.issued2021-
dc.identifier.citationTemizel, S., Wunderlich, R. & Leifels, M. (2021). Characteristics and injury patterns of road traffic injuries in urban and rural Uganda—a retrospective medical record review study in two hospitals. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(14), 7663-. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18147663en_US
dc.identifier.issn1660-4601en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10356/154027-
dc.description.abstractIn the ongoing Second Decade of Action for Road Safety, road traffic crashes pose a considerable threat especially in low-income countries. Uganda shows a vast burden of non-fatal injuries and resides at the top range of countries with the highest death rates due to unsafe roads. However, little is known about the differences in road traffic associated injuries between urban and rural areas and potential influence factors. Here, we used a cross-sectional study conducted by a retrospective medical record review from trauma cases admitted in 2016 to hospitals in rural and urban areas in Uganda. Injury severity scores were calculated and descriptive analysis was carried out while multivariate logistic regression was applied to assess significant covariates. According to the 1683 medical records reviewed, the mean age of trauma patients in the dataset under investigation was 30.8 years with 74% male. The trauma in-hospital mortality was 4% while prevalence of traumatic injuries is 56.4%. Motorcycle users (49.6%) and pedestrians (33.7%) were identified as the most vulnerable groups in both urban and rural setting while mild injuries of extremities (61.6%) and the head/neck-region (42.0%) were registered most. The frequency of road traffic injuries was homogenous in the urban and rural hospitals investigated in this study; interventions should therefore be intensified ubiquitously. The identification of significant differences in road traffic crash and injury characteristics provides the opportunity for specific programmes to decrease the socio-economic and health burden of unsafe roads. In addition to law enforcement and introduction of a Systems Thinking approach to road safety including infrastructural and educational concepts, the strengthening of trauma care and health resources is recommended.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Healthen_US
dc.rights© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).en_US
dc.subjectEngineering::Environmental engineeringen_US
dc.titleCharacteristics and injury patterns of road traffic injuries in urban and rural Uganda—a retrospective medical record review study in two hospitalsen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.contributor.researchSingapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences and Engineeringen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/ijerph18147663-
dc.description.versionPublished versionen_US
dc.identifier.pmid34300111-
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85110347025-
dc.identifier.issue14en_US
dc.identifier.volume18en_US
dc.identifier.spage7663en_US
dc.subject.keywordsRoad Traffic Crashesen_US
dc.subject.keywordsRoad Traffic Injuriesen_US
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