Morbidity and mortality from road injuries: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The global burden of road injuries is known to follow complex geographical, temporal and demographic patterns. While health loss from road injuries is a major topic of global importance, there has been no recent comprehensive assessment that includes estimates for every age group, sex and country over recent years.

Methods

We used results from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2017 study to report incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability, deaths, years of life lost and disability-adjusted life years for all locations in the GBD 2017 hierarchy from 1990 to 2017 for road injuries. Second, we measured mortality-to-incidence ratios by location. Third, we assessed the distribution of the natures of injury (eg, traumatic brain injury) that result from each ro

SUBMITTER: James SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7571357 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature