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Review
. 2020 Aug;23(4):216-218.
doi: 10.1016/j.cjtee.2020.06.001. Epub 2020 Jun 19.

Global road traffic injury statistics: Challenges, mechanisms and solutions

Fang-Rong Chang  1 , He-Lai Huang  2 , David C Schwebel  3 , Alan H S Chan  4 , Guo-Qing Hu  5
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Global road traffic injury statistics: Challenges, mechanisms and solutions

Fang-Rong Chang et al. Chin J Traumatol. 2020 Aug.

Abstract

High-quality data are the foundation to monitor the progress and evaluate the effects of road traffic injury prevention measures. Unfortunately, official road traffic injury statistics delivered by governments worldwide, are often believed somewhat unreliable and invalid. We summarized the reported problems concerning the road traffic injury statistics through systematically searching and reviewing the literature. The problems include absence of regular data, under-reporting, low specificity, distorted cause spectrum of road traffic injury, inconsistency, inaccessibility, and delay of data release. We also explored the mechanisms behind the problematic data and proposed the solutions to the addressed challenges for road traffic statistics.

Keywords: Mechanisms behind the data; Reported problems; Traffic injury data.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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