Injury morbidity in an urban and a rural area in Tanzania: an epidemiological survey

Moshiro, Candida; Heuch, Ivar; Åstrøm, Anne Nordrehaug; Setel, Philip; Hemed, Yusuf; Kvåle, Gunnar

doi:10.1186/1471-2458-5-11

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“…The preponderance of males among those injured is consistent with data from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the studies conducted by Ghaffar et al [12], Mock et al [13], and Moshiro et al [14]. Similar to other findings, more males than females suffered from all types of injuries; our study identified 10,262 (67.9%) injured males and 4851 (32.1%) injured females.…”

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Analysis of Hospital Mortality and Epidemiology in Trauma Patients: A Multi-Center Study

Sogut

2011

J Curr Surg

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Analysis of Hospital Mortality and Epidemiology in Trauma Patients: A Multi-Center Study

Sogut

2011

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“…Wui et al also reported high Male to Female ratio of 2.25:1 in a trauma epidemiology study conducted in Singapore [2] and preponderance of males among injured was also reported by several other studies [11][12][13][14][15]. [1].…”

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Epidemiology of Orthopaedic Admissions at A Teaching Hospital of Eastern Nepal

Mishra¹,

Jha

Gupta³

2017

J Nobel Med Coll

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BackgroundThere are many other reasons besides fracture for which a patient could potentially be admitted to orthopaedic inpatient care. The goal of this retrospective review was to analyze the spectrum of orthopaedic admissions to a tertiary level teaching hospital of Nepal. Material & MethodsThis retrospective descriptive epidemiological study was based on patients admitted for orthopaedic inpatient care at a tertiary level health care center of eastern Nepal. Registry data of 1 year was used to analyze the spectrum of orthopaedic admissions. ResultsMale admission outnumbered females with a ratio of 1.82:1. Trauma accounted to majority of Orthopaedic admissions (67.9%) and Infection lied second in order (12.4%). Upper and Lower limb fractures (with right sided dominance) contributed to highest numbers of trauma respectively. Incidence of closed to open fracture was 5.45:1. More than half of trauma and fractures involved the 10 -39 years age group with predominance in 10-19 years. Fracture incidence was higher among men than women until 59 years of age after which the gender ratio reversed. Conclusions:Leading cause for orthopaedic admission was Trauma accounting more than 2/3 of the total. Biasness in gender admission reflects true picture of male dominated society. Upper limb injury, right side and closed fractures were dominating. Sexual dimorphism was apparent in fractures which may be due to higher rates of Osteoporotic fractures in elderly females.

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“…These findings suggest that the magnitude of RTI is high, and is higher than that reported from other developing countries. (14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19) We examined some possible reasons for this. The majority of the previously published population-based studies on RTI incidence from other countries have reported data that had resulted in loss of activities using 12-months recall period, and most of these had reported proxy data.…”

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Epidemiology of Road Traffic Injuries in Qassim Region , Saudi Arabia : Consistency of Police and Health Data

Barrimah

Midhet²,

Sharaf³

2012

IJHS

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Abstract:Introduction: In Saudi Arabia, road traffic accidents (RTA) are becoming a serious public health problem. Police reports are designed for legal purposes with very little information on the health consequences. Also, health system data include detailed health information, but not related or linked to the data obtained police reports. Examining the consistency of these sources is vital to build an accurate surveillance system that can track the risk factors and the health consequences, as well as establishing and evaluating prevention interventions.

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Injury morbidity in an urban and a rural area in Tanzania: an epidemiological survey

Abstract: Background: Injuries are becoming a major health problem in developing countries. Few population based studies have been carried out in African countries. We examined the pattern of nonfatal injuries and associated risk factors in an urban and rural setting of Tanzania.

Cited by 159 publications

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Analysis of Hospital Mortality and Epidemiology in Trauma Patients: A Multi-Center Study

Analysis of Hospital Mortality and Epidemiology in Trauma Patients: A Multi-Center Study

Epidemiology of Orthopaedic Admissions at A Teaching Hospital of Eastern Nepal

Epidemiology of Road Traffic Injuries in Qassim Region , Saudi Arabia : Consistency of Police and Health Data

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