Sebsbie, Anteneh Kebede (2015) Road Traffic Accident Related Fatalities in Addis Ababa City, Ethiopia: An Analysis of Police Report 2013/14. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
Introductions Road transportation provides benefits both to nations and to individuals by facilitating the movement of goods and people. It enables increased access for daily living and programs on the country at large. But these increased in access and number of transportation pose a great challenge in the individuals daily activity ranging from minor injury to death and the nation also suffers from lose of productive citizens and economic shift to preventable health activities Objectives The general objective of the study is to assess the magnitude of and factors contributing to the Mortality related to Road Traffic Accidents in `Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from September 2013 to August 2014. Methodology Data from the Addis Ababa Police Commission; Traffic Police Department was collected from the checklist used to collect information by the police officer at the scene and the logbook and entered to SPSS version 16.00 and description was performed. Finally the result was generated from the SPSS and will be presented to the department of emergency medicine and on the professional association’s conference. Dissemination of the result will be made available to concerned bodies (Addis Ababa Traffic Police Department, Federal Ministry of Health Ethiopia and Federal Ministry of Transport and respected Addis Ababa Offices (Transport, Health, Traffic Police). Result Overall, there were 2372 recorded road traffic accidents (excluding accidents with only property damage) in addis ababa during 2006(2013/14). Of these, 382(16.1%) were fatal. Among all fatalities majority were male 279(73.03%), Male/Female- 3:1 and pedestrians 321(84.0%). Fatal accidents were more prevalent on isled roads 262(60.7%) and involved especially commercial cars. More than half of fatalities 205(53.8%) occurred due to failure to give a way for pedestrians. Conclusion Majority of affected were vulnerable road users among which pedestrians were predominant and affected while crossing the road outside the zebra cross and responsible parties were driving commercial cars and vast majority of victims died at the scene instantaneously which needs policy on pedestrian safety and education on behavioral change. These findings can serve as a basis for health care professionals and policymakers to create preventive measures for traffic accidents.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Road traffic Accident, Mortality, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RT Nursing |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Vincent Mpoza |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Jun 2018 08:22 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Jun 2018 08:22 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/6329 |
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