Global road traffic injury statistics: Challenges, mechanisms and solutions

Fang-Rong Chang; He-Lai Huang; David C. Schwebel; Alan H.S. Chan; Guo-Qing Hu

doi:10.1016/j.cjtee.2020.06.001

Global road traffic injury statistics : Challenges, mechanisms and solutions

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Author(s)

Fang-Rong Chang
He-Lai Huang
David C. Schwebel
Alan H.S. Chan
Guo-Qing Hu

Related Research Unit(s)

Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management

Detail(s)

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	216-218
Journal / Publication	Chinese Journal of Traumatology - English Edition
Volume	23
Issue number	4
Online published	19 Jun 2020
Publication status	Published - Aug 2020

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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.