Addressing discrepancies in estimates of road traffic deaths and injuries in Ethiopia.

Kazuyuki NekiHialy GutierrezSudeshna MitraAwoke M TemesgenLeah Watetu MbuguaRamshankar BalasubramaniyanMercer WinerJaeda RobertsTheo VosErin HamiltonMohsen NaghaviJames E HarrisonSoames JobKavi Bhalla

Published in: Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention (2022)

Inclusion of data from national health surveys in GBD and GSRRS can help reduce discrepancies in estimates of deaths and support their use in highlighting under-reporting in official statistics and advocating for better prioritisation of road safety in the national policy agenda. GBD methods for estimating serious non-fatal injuries should be strengthened to allow monitoring progress towards Sustainable Development Goal target 3.6.

Keyphrases

air pollution
public health
healthcare
electronic health record
quality improvement
adverse drug
big data
cross sectional
global health
emergency department
machine learning
deep learning