Mortality due to road injuries in the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 1990-2017.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A systematic understanding of population-level trends in deaths due to road injuries at the subnational level over time for India's 1·4 billion people, by age, sex, and type of road user is not readily available; we aimed to fill this knowledge gap.

Methods

As part of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study, we estimated the rate of deaths due to road injuries in each state of India from 1990 to 2017 based on several verbal autopsy data sources. We calculated the number of deaths and death rate for road injuries by type of road user, and assessed the age and sex distribution of these deaths over time. Based on the trends of the age-standardised death rate from 1990 to 2017, we projected the age-standardised death rate to 2030 to assess if t

SUBMITTER: India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative Road Injury Collaborators 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7098470 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature