Transport injuries and deaths in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Transport injuries (TI) are ranked as one of the leading causes of death, disability, and property loss worldwide. This paper provides an overview of the burden of TI in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) by age and sex from 1990 to 2015.

Methods

Transport injuries mortality in the EMR was estimated using the Global Burden of Disease mortality database, with corrections for ill-defined causes of death, using the cause of death ensemble modeling tool. Morbidity estimation was based on inpatient and outpatient datasets, 26 cause-of-injury and 47 nature-of-injury categories.

Results

In 2015, 152,855 (95% uncertainty interval: 137,900-168,100) people died from TI in the EMR countries. Between 1990 and 2015, the years of life lost (YLL) rate per 100,000 due

SUBMITTER: GBD 2015 Eastern Mediterranean Region Transportation Injuries Collaborators 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5973983 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature