Pre-hospital trauma care resources for road traffic injuries in a middle-income country--a province based study on need and access in Iran

Injury
Hassan Haghparast BidgoliMarie Hasselberg

Abstract

Access to pre-hospital trauma care can help minimize many of traffic related mortality and morbidity in low- and middle-income countries with high rate of traffic deaths such as Iran. The aim of this study was to assess if the distribution of pre-hospital trauma care facilities reflect the burden of road traffic injury and mortality in different provinces in Iran. This national cross-sectional study is based on ecological data on road traffic mortality (RTM), road traffic injuries (RTIs) and pre-hospital trauma facilities for all 30 provinces in Iran in 2006. Lorenz curves and Gini coefficients were used to describe the distributions of RTM/RTIs and pre-hospital trauma care facilities across provinces. Spearman rank-order correlation was performed to assess the relationship between RTM/RTI and pre-hospital trauma care facilities. RTM and RTIs as well as pre-hospital trauma care facilities were distributed unequally between different provinces. There was no significant association between the rate of RTM and RTIs and the number of pre-hospital trauma care facilities across the country. The distribution of pre-hospital trauma care facilities does not reflect the needs in terms of RTM and RTIs for different provinces. These result...Continue Reading

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Jul 24, 2013·BMC Health Services Research·Hassan Haghparast-BidgoliMarie Hasselberg
Sep 24, 2011·International Journal for Equity in Health·Aliasghar Ahmad KiadaliriHassan Haghparast-Bidgoli
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