title: Epidemiology of road traffic mortality and injuries in Yazd, Iran during 2003-2008.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Road traffic crashes (RTCs) are considered to be the second highest cause of mortality in Iran. The purpose of this study was to describe the morbidity and mortality of RTC during 2003-2008.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data were got from national health sources of Iran. These data included population, the number of RTCs, consequent fatalities, cause and place of death from 2003 to 2008.
  
  
  RESULTS
  RTC incidence rate increased from 868.5 per 100 000 population in the year 2003 to 1 643.6 in 2008. A total of 2 565 deaths from RTC were recorded in Yazd from 2003 to 2008. RTC mortality rate increased from 46.1 per 100 000 population in 2003 to 46.9 in 2006, then declined to 38.8 in 2008. During this time period, overall traffic injury incidence per 100 000 population increased from 368.8 in 2003 to 647.9 in 2006, then declined to 527.9 in 2008. Head injuries were the most common cause of road traffic-related mortality from 2003 to 2008. Following road traffic accidents, most of the deaths occurred before arriving hospital.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Road traffic crash-related mortality and morbidity in Yazd in the recent six years are increased, but decreased in the last two years. This decline is most probably the result of a variety of interventions, including laws, police enforcement, improvements in traffic and transport, health care resources and media and public education.
authors: Biostatistics and Epidemiology of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Daneshjoo Boulevard, Yazd 89165-887, Islamic Republic of Iran.
authors: Hossien
authors: H
authors: Fallahzadeh
authors: Atefeh
authors: A
authors: Dehgani
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007492:Iran / Q000453:epidemiology