Mortality due to road traffic injuries in Guilan province in 2011-2012
Irtiqa Imini Pishgiri Masdumiyat (Safety Promotion and Injury Prevention),
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2015),
23 September 2015
,
Page 102 - 97
https://doi.org/10.22037/meipm.v3i2.10075
Abstract
Background and Objectives: Nowadays one of the most important dangers that affect health promotion and developing in society is increasing of the traffic accidents. Traffic accidents one of the most causes of mortality due to trauma in the world and Iran. With regarding to increase of incidence of traffic accidents, we decided to assess the mortality due to traffic accidents in guilan province in 2011-2012.
Materials and Methods: in this descriptive cross sectional study the samples include all the people died due to traffic accidents in 2011-2012.Sampling method is numb ration. For each person a check list include sex, month of accidents occurrence, site of death (accidents site, in ambulance, hospital and the house), site of accidents(in the city, out of the city and the country road), cause of death(head trauma, bleeding, multiple trauma, burning and etc) and the city of accidents occurrence were recorded. Data was inserted in SPSS Ver 17 and analyzed.
Results: There was 1620 death due to traffic accidents in guilan province in 2011-2012. Among them 1329 (82%) were male and 291(18%) were female.1147 (70/8%) of all accidents occurred in the city road about the site of death864 (53/3%) in accidents site. Data about the cause of death showed that941 (58/1) of persons died due to head trauma. The most prevalent season of the accidents as autumn458 (28/3) and about the month of death mehr170 (10/5).
Conclusion: Results of this study showed that the most of death occurred in the months of season summer. With regarding to these subjects it was advised that educational prevention and the efforts of all the organs in traffic accidents will be noted.
How to cite this article: Monsef V, Asadi P, Maleki Ziabari SM.Mortality due to road traffic injuries in Guilan province in 2011-2012.Irtiqa Imini Pishgiri Masdumiyat (Safety Promotion and Injury Prevention).2015;3(2):97-102.
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