title: Estimating the burden of injury in urban and rural Sudan in 2008.
abstract: Sudan has been undergoing demographic and social changes that could have a tangible impact on population injury rates. However, reliable estimates of injury epidemiology are lacking. We aimed to estimate injury incidence and mortality in urban and rural Sudan, using existing data sources.
  
  
  
  We used the 2008 national census mortality data with mortuary data to construct unintentional and intentional injury mortality estimates in urban and rural areas. We estimated incidence of non-fatal injuries using the Sudan Household Health Survey 2010. Uncertainty analysis was carried out to construct 95% uncertainty intervals (UIs) for the final estimates.
  
  
  
  Overall injury death rate was estimated at 109 (95% UI 83-142) per 100 000 per year, 94 (66-129) per 100 000 in urban populations and 117 (95% UI 86-157) per 100 000 in rural populations. Injuries accounted for 12% of all male deaths and 6% of all female deaths, but more than half of the deaths among young men aged 20-34 years. Urban injury rates were higher among males but lower among females than rural injury rates. Road traffic injuries were the major cause of fatal injury in urban Sudan, but other causes accounted for the majority of non-fatal injuries nationally.
  
  
  
  Road traffic injuries should remain a priority for the country but better data are needed for rural Sudan. To that end, investment in existing data collection systems is essential. Our method can be applied in other countries with a similar data availability pattern.
authors.affiliation: Sudan Health Consultancy, Dublin, Ireland.
authors.forename: Safa
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Abdalla
authors.affiliation: Sudan Federal Ministry of Health, Khartoum, Sudan.
authors.forename: Suad
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ahmed
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, Department of Community Medicine, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan.
authors.forename: Zeinab
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Swareldahab
authors.affiliation: Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: Kavi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bhalla
mesh_terms: D000056:Accident Prevention; D000059:Accidents / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D019352:Censuses; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006708:Homicide / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011050:Policy Making; D011634:Public Health; D012424:Rural Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013397:Sudan / Q000453:epidemiology; D013405:Suicide / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000401:mortality*; D055815:Young Adult