Road traffic injuries - World Health Organization (WHO)
2023年12月13日 · Road traffic death rates are highest in the WHO African Region and lowest in the European Region. Even within high-income countries, people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are more likely to be involved in road traffic crashes. Age. Road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death for children and young adults aged 5–29 years.
Road traffic injuries - World Health Organization (WHO)
2024年12月17日 · Road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death for children and young adults aged 5–29. Yet two thirds of road traffic fatalities occur among people of working age (18–59 years). Nine in 10 fatalities on the roads occur in low- and middle-income countries, even though these countries have around 60% of the world's vehicles.
Global status report on road safety 2023 - World Health …
2023年12月13日 · The Global status report on road safety 2023 details the scale of global road traffic deaths, and progress in advancing laws, strategies and actions to reduce them around the world. The fifth report in a series, it provides an overview of progress between 2010 and 2021, and sets a baseline for the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety ...
Road traffic mortality - World Health Organization (WHO)
There were 1.35 million road traffic deaths globally in 2016, with millions more sustaining serious injuries and living with long-term adverse health consequences. Globally, road traffic crashes are a leading cause of death among young people, and the main cause of death among those aged 15–29 years.
Estimated number of road traffic deaths - World Health …
Countries with other sources of information on cause of death. This group includes India, Iran, Thailand and Viet Nam. For these countries a regression method was used to project forward the most recent yearfor which an estimate of total road traffic deaths were available.
Estimated road traffic death rate (per 100 000 population)
To estimateroad traffic fatal injury, we classified the countries into fourgroups as follows: Countries with death registration data completeness of at least 80% . For this category we used one of the following data: death registration,projection of the most recent death registration, reported death or projected reported deaths.
Road traffic injuries: Children - World Health Organization (WHO)
2023年12月6日 · Road traffic injuries are the leading killer of children and young people aged 5–29 years worldwide. In addition, rates of road traffic death among children are typically 3 times higher in low- and middle-income countries than in high …
Injuries and violence - World Health Organization (WHO)
2024年6月19日 · Roughly 1 in 3 of these deaths result from road traffic crashes, 1 in 6 from suicide, 1 in 10 from homicide and 1 in 61 from war and conflict. For people age 5-29 years, 3 of the top 5 causes of death are injury-related, namely road traffic injuries, homicide and suicide. Drowning is the sixth leading cause of death for children age 5-14 years.
2023年全球道路安全状况报告 - World Health Organization (WHO)
《2023 年全球道路安全状况报告》“摘要” 显示，道路交通年死亡人数略有下降，2021年降至 119 万人。报告显示，改善道路安全的努力正在产生影响，如果采取行之有效的措施，道路交通死亡人数可以大幅减少。尽管如此，为交通出行所付出的代价仍然过高。道路交通伤害仍然是 5-29 岁儿 …
Spinal cord injury - World Health Organization (WHO)
2024年4月16日 · The term spinal cord injury (SCI) refers to damage to the spinal cord resulting from trauma (e.g. from falls and road traffic injuries) or non-traumatic causes like tumors, degenerative and vascular conditions, infections, toxins or birth defects. The extent of SCI related impairment depends on injury severity and location in the spinal cord.