Road Traffic Injuries and the Built Environment in Bogota, Colombia, 2015-2019: A Cross-Sectional Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Nine in 10 road traffic deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Despite this disproportionate burden, few studies have examined built environment correlates of road traffic injury in these settings, including in Latin America. We examined road traffic collisions in Bogotá, Colombia, occurring between 2015 and 2019, and assessed the association between neighborhood-level built environment features and pedestrian injury and death. We used descriptive statistics to characterize all police-reported road traffic collisions that occurred in Bogotá between 2015 and 2019. Cluster detection was used to identify spatial clustering of pedestrian collisions. Adjusted multivariate Poisson regression models were fit to examine associations between several neighborhood-built environment

SUBMITTER: Zewdie HY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11329493 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature