title: [Epidemiological study on traffic accident in Shanghai from 2000 to 2002].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Data on traffic accident from year 2000 to 2002 were collected and testified. Epidemiological study was carried out to find the main risk factors of traffic accident.
  
  
  METHODS
  The spatial distribution was conducted by means of Geographic Information System (GIS) and were marked on Shanghai digitalized map with different layers by different colors.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Results showed that during 2000, 2001 and 2002, 69,669 , 68,894, and 47,088 traffic accident episodes occurred in Shanghai, resulting in 1747, 1724, 1557 deaths respectively with direct economic lost: 2.1, 2.4, 3.0 billion RMB. The main risk factors causing traffic accident deaths would include drinking alcohol before driving, fatigue and speeding. The leading causes of death were head injury and complex injury of body. GIS showed that there was a homocentric circle with more traffic accidents in downtown city, but more deaths in the urban city. Disease burden caused by traffic accident was very heavy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In Shanghai, traffic accident has great impact on social and economic issues thus should be controlled effectively. Focus should be layed on control of traffic accident in downtown area and to decrease the number of deaths related to traffic accident in the urban area.
authors.affiliation: Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai 200336, China.
authors.forename: Sheng-nian
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Shun-fu
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Shao-ming
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Bin-jie
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Qiang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Jian-guang
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Jian-ping
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Qiong
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Bao
authors.forename: Gui-xiang
authors.initials: GX
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Dong
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.forename: Yan-hong
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zhou
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D000367:Age Factors; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology