Estimating the burden of road traffic crashes in Uganda using police and health sector data sources

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dc.contributor.authorMuni, Kennedy Maring
dc.contributor.authorNingwa, Albert
dc.contributor.authorOsuret, Jimmy
dc.contributor.authorBayiga Zziwa, Esther
dc.contributor.authorNamatovu, Stellah
dc.contributor.authorBiribawa, Claire
dc.contributor.authorNakafeero, Mary
dc.contributor.authorMutto, Milton
dc.contributor.authorGuwatudde, David
dc.contributor.authorKyamanywa, Patrick
dc.contributor.authorKobusingye, Olive
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-11T12:17:37Z
dc.date.available2022-02-11T12:17:37Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractd In many low-income countries, estimates of road injury burden are derived from police reports, and may not represent the complete picture of the burden in these countries. As a result, WHO and the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors Project often use complex models to generate country-specific estimates. Although such estimates inform prevention targets, they may be limited by the incompleteness of the data and the assumptions used in the models. In this crosssectional study, we provide an alternative approach to estimating road traffic injury burden for Uganda for the year 2016 using data from multiple data sources (the police, health facilities and mortuaries). Methods A digitised data collection tool was used to extract crash and injury information from files in 32 police stations, 31 health facilities and 4 mortuaries in Uganda. We estimated crash and injury burden using weights generated as inverse of the product of the probabilities of selection of police regions and stations. Results We estimated that 25 729 crashes occurred on Ugandan roads in 2016, involving 59 077 individuals with 7558 fatalities. This is more than twice the number of fatalities reported by the police for 2016 (3502) but lower than the estimate from the 2018 Global Status Report (12 036). Pedestrians accounted for the greatest proportion of the fatalities 2455 (32.5%), followed by motorcyclists 1357 (18%). Conclusions Using both police and health sector data gives more robust estimates for the road traffic burden in Uganda than using either source alone.en_US
dc.identifier.citation: Muni KM, Ningwa A, Osuret J, et al. Inj Prev Epub ahead of print: [please include Day Month Year]. doi:10.1136/ injuryprev-2020-043654en_US
dc.identifier.other10.1136/ injuryprev-2020-043654
dc.identifier.urihttps://nru.uncst.go.ug/xmlui/handle/123456789/2074
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInjury preventionen_US
dc.subjectBurdenen_US
dc.subjectRoad traffic crashesen_US
dc.subjectUgandaen_US
dc.subjectPoliceen_US
dc.subjectHealth sector data sourcesen_US
dc.titleEstimating the burden of road traffic crashes in Uganda using police and health sector data sourcesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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