Citation

Kilsztajn S, Silva CR, Silva DF, Michelin A, Carvalho AR, Ferraz IL. Rev. Saude Publica 2001; 35(3): 262-268.

Vernacular Title

Taxa de mortalidade por acidentes de trasito e frota de veiculos.

Affiliation

Laboratório de Economia Social, Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Economia Política, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil. skil@pucsp.br

Copyright

(Copyright © 2001, Faculdade de Higiene e Saude Publica)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11486149

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: The mortality rate due to traffic accidents is an information often used while making public health policies. In order to measure traffic violence, a study was carried to analyze the number of death by traffic accidents per registered motor vehicle. METHODS: Based on the number of registered vehicles, population and traffic accident deaths, obtained from the Statistical Yearbook (1999), Demographic Yearbook (1997), Denatran (1999), Ministério da Saúde (2000) and Fundação IBGE (2000) 61 countries and 51 areas in Brazil were studied. Traffic accident mortality rate was broken down into registered motor vehicles per capita and the number of deaths per motor vehicle. To assess this relationship, the samples (international and Brazilian) were subdivided into three groups according to the number of vehicles per capita. To test the statistical significance of this relationship, log-linear regression was used. RESULTS: The number of deaths per motor vehicles is associated to the number of registered motor vehicles per capita. The statistical relationship is -1.067 for international data and -0.515 for the Brazilian data. CONCLUSIONS: To prevent traffic accidents, there is a need of further studies to explain the high numbers of deaths due to motor vehicles associated with the low rate of registered motor vehicles per capita.

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