Public Health Profile of Road Traffic Accidents in Kosovo 2010-2015.
Open Access Maced J Med Sci
; 5(7): 1036-1041, 2017 Dec 15.
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ABSTRACT
AIM:
To determine the characteristics of the Socio-medical profile of road traffic accidents in Kosovo, between 2010 and 2015 year. STUDYDESIGN:
Retrospective study.METHODS:
A descriptive method based on the database of road traffic accidents from the National Police of Kosovo.RESULTS:
In Kosovo for the period 2010-2015, on average, the yearly number of road traffic accidents is 18437 with mortality rate 7.4 per 100000 and lethality of 1.5%. The highest number of fatal cases are drivers and above 19 years old with more than 80%. Among injured significantly highest percentage is among passengers for all years and above 19 years old. Road traffic accident with a vehicle occurs most frequently, with approximately over 70%, mostly on dry road 72.9% and clear weather 71.1%. The driver is the contributing factors of road traffic accidents on average 99.3% whereas climatic conditions only 0.5%, with over 50% of crashes occurring in urban road 56.2%, mostly during Monday 16.0% and in the afternoon rush hours between 14.00-18.00 with 31.0%.CONCLUSIONS:
There is a slight decrease in the mortality rate of 0.1 and lethality rate of 0.1% each year, whereas there is an increase of 21.5 for traumatism rate for each year.
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Observational_studies
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En
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Open Access Maced J Med Sci
Ano de publicação:
2017
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Article