Field Data: Distributions and Costs of Road-Traffic Fatalities in South Africa

Olukoga, Abiodun; Harris, Geoff

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“…Six were population-based and the remaining 33 were registry-based studies. Two studies were from Ethiopia, 10 , 11 six from Ghana, 31 – 36 nine from Nigeria, 38 – 46 seven from South Africa 23 – 29 and five from the United Republic of Tanzania. 13 – 17 The remaining 10 studies were from one of the following countries: Algeria, 19 Cameroon, 8 Cote d’Ivoire, 30 Guinea, 37 Kenya, 12 Libya, 20 Malawi, 21 Mozambique, 22 Rwanda 9 and Uganda.…”

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The burden of road traffic crashes, injuries and deaths in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Rudan

Thompson

Akanbi

et al. 2016

Bull. World Health Organ.

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ObjectiveTo estimate the burden of road traffic injuries and deaths for all road users and among different road user groups in Africa.MethodsWe searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, Global Health, Google Scholar, websites of African road safety agencies and organizations for registry- and population-based studies and reports on road traffic injury and death estimates in Africa, published between 1980 and 2015. Available data for all road users and by road user group were extracted and analysed. We conducted a random-effects meta-analysis and estimated pooled rates of road traffic injuries and deaths.FindingsWe identified 39 studies from 15 African countries. The estimated pooled rate for road traffic injury was 65.2 per 100 000 population (95% confidence interval, CI: 60.8–69.5) and the death rate was 16.6 per 100 000 population (95% CI: 15.2–18.0). Road traffic injury rates increased from 40.7 per 100 000 population in the 1990s to 92.9 per 100 000 population between 2010 and 2015, while death rates decreased from 19.9 per 100 000 population in the 1990s to 9.3 per 100 000 population between 2010 and 2015. The highest road traffic death rate was among motorized four-wheeler occupants at 5.9 per 100 000 population (95% CI: 4.4–7.4), closely followed by pedestrians at 3.4 per 100 000 population (95% CI: 2.5–4.2).ConclusionThe burden of road traffic injury and death is high in Africa. Since registry-based reports underestimate the burden, a systematic collation of road traffic injury and death data is needed to determine the true burden.

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The burden of road traffic crashes, injuries and deaths in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Rudan

Thompson

Akanbi

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Bull. World Health Organ.

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“…In Nigeria, the difference in road traffic incidence in the past 12 months between urban areas and rural areas was insignificant [9]. While in China [5,10], South Africa [11], and USA [12], rural areas were reported having higher road traffic mortality than urban areas.…”

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Neglected increases in rural road traffic mortality in China: findings based on health data from 2005 to 2010

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BackgroundRecent changes in rural road traffic mortality have not been examined in China although rural residents were reported as having greater risk of road traffic injury than urban residents. We aimed to examine changes in urban and rural road traffic mortality rates between 2005 and 2010 in China.MethodsMortality rates came from the publicly available health data of the Ministry of Health-Vital Registration System that is based on a national representative sample (about 10% of total population), including 41 surveillance points in urban areas (15 large cities and 21 middle/small cities) and 85 surveillance points in rural areas. The causes of deaths were coded using the Tenth International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10). Linear regression was used to test the statistical significance of changes in mortality rates. We calculated the percent change in rates to quantify the change between 2005 and 2010, which was calculated as regression coefficient * 100 * 5 divided by the rate in 2005.ResultsIn rural areas, road traffic mortality increased by 70%, changing from 13.3 per 100,000 population in 2005 to 22.7 per 100,000 population in 2010. In contrast, the road traffic mortality merely increased by 4% in the study time period, rising from 13.1 to 13.9 per 100,000 population in urban areas. Both the increases in road traffic mortality from motor vehicle crashes and from non-motor vehicle crashes were larger in rural areas than in urban areas (106% vs. 4%; 29% vs. 3%).ConclusionThe tremendous increase in road traffic mortality in rural areas calls for urgent actions to reduce road traffic injuries to motor vehicle occupants, motorcyclists, bicyclists and pedestrians in in rural areas.

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“…Olukoga and Harris (2006) calculated the number of roadtraffic fatalities in rural areas of South Africa as 2.7 times that in urban areas. A Nigeria study (Labinjo et al 2009), in seven Nigerian states, however, reports road traffic injury rates for rural and urban respondents as not significantly different.…”

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Transport Services and Their Impact on Poverty and Growth in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Recent Research and Future Research Needs

Porter

2014

Transport Reviews

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Porter, Gina (2014) 'Transport services and their impact on poverty and growth in rural sub-Saharan Africa : a review of recent research and future research needs.', Transport reviews., 34 (1). pp. 25-45. Further information on publisher's website: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Suggestions are made regarding the type of studies and methods which could help to reduce some of these gaps.

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Field Data: Distributions and Costs of Road-Traffic Fatalities in South Africa

Abstract: Those living in the rural areas of the South African society and those aged 20-49 years constitute high-risk groups of road-traffic crashes and fatalities. They are also responsible for most of the attendant costs of fatal crashes and fatalities in the country.

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The burden of road traffic crashes, injuries and deaths in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

The burden of road traffic crashes, injuries and deaths in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Neglected increases in rural road traffic mortality in China: findings based on health data from 2005 to 2010

Transport Services and Their Impact on Poverty and Growth in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Recent Research and Future Research Needs

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