Occupational Health Hazards among Commercial Motorcyclists in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

Yunusa, Umar Muazu; Lawal, Umar Bello; Idris, Areej Imad Aldeen Mohamed; Garba, S.

doi:10.9790/1959-03124652

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“…Author(s) agree that this article remain permanently open access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International License vehicles involved in accidents result from over-speeding (Hejase et al, 2017) and drivers failure to obey traffic signals (Ansari et al, 2000). As road traffic accident cases are predicted to increase to 80% in low and middle income countries (Orowhigo and Planning, 2017;, it is also seen to be pronounced much more among the economic working force or active adults (Oppong, 2012;Afukaar et al, 2003;Yunusa et al, 2014). RTA is not limited to the immediate known problems of losing lives and properties but extends to influence some economic factors like working hours of a victim and their relatives, high dependence on relative's income, increase in government expenditure on emergency and medical cost, and loss of wages and productivity (Gorea, 2016).…”

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Trend analysis and economic effect of RTA deaths on dependency ratio in Ghana

Ossei¹,

Agagli²,

Ayibor³

et al. 2019

J. Econ. Int. Finance

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Road traffic accident (RTA) injuries and mortalities are some side effects of using automobile vehicles and Ghana is not deprived of them. This study enlightens some effects of road traffic accident mortalities on the Ghanaian economy and investigates its yearly trend, age range distribution and also reveals its influence on economic activities. 832 secondary data obtained on individuals who died through RTA from the Autopsy day book of Pathology Unit, KATH was studied. 15% (126) of the victims were children below 15 years (≤14), 9% (78) are aged over 64 (≥65) years. The total RTA deaths among these two economic dependent age range (≤14 + ≥65) was 25% (204) and that of the economic active population (15-64) is 75%(628). Yearly trend plot shows fluctuations as the working group lies above the dependent population. There is 3:1 death ratio between the economic independent and dependent population respectively, contributing to high dependency ratio in Ghana. Support from the working group towards their families, society and any other dependent population decreases. Economic growth, development and GDP are negatively affected as tax revenue and productivity is comparatively decreasing. The Motor Transport and Traffic Unit should increase its effort to ensure discipline on roads.

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