Social, economic, and legislative factors and global road traffic fatalities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Road traffic fatalities (RTF) is the 8th cause of mortality around the world. At the end of the Decade of Action, it would be of utmost importance to revisit our knowledge on the determinants of RTF. The aim of this study is to assess factors related to RTF at global level.

Methods

We used road safety development index which accounts for the interactions between system, human and products to assess the RTF in 115 and 113 countries in 2013 and 2016, respectively. To analyze data, three statistical procedures (linear regression, classification and regression trees, and multivariate adaptive regression splines) were employed.

Results

Classification and regression trees has the best performance amongst all others followed by multivariate adaptive regression spl

SUBMITTER: Haghighi MRR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7646406 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature