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Reliable statistics on road traffic injuries (RTI) are an essential input for describing the public health burden of injuries, evaluating the impact of safety policies, and benchmarking achievements.Â
While injury surveillance systems are common in high income countries, most low and middle income countries are unlikely to have such capacity for several decades. In the interim, the Harvard Initiative for Global Health is working with the World Bank Global Road Safety Facility to develop a publicly available cross-national RTI database by harmonizing injury statistics from a wide array of data sources. The database will contain best estimates of national level road traffic deaths and injuries broken down by age, gender, location (e.g. urban, rural, type of road), and victim type (e.g. pedestrian, motorcycle, occupant).
Relevant inputs for the database include crime reports, hospital records, crematorium records, insurance claims, and health and economic surveys. We are developing data translation algorithms that make these sources consistent and comparable. The results produced in this project will flow into the next revision of the Global Burden of Disease study. | | Â | | |
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