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Abstract
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Background The police-reported recent decrease in pedestrian fatality was questionable in terms of the serious under-reporting of police-reported data.
Aims/Objectives/Purpose To examine changes in pedestrian fatality between 2006 and 2010 in China using Non-police-reported data.
Methods A longitudinal study was conducted based on the mortality data during 2006-2010 from the Disease Surveillance Points data of China. Multivariate Poisson regression was used to control the effects of sex, age, and urban/rural. Mortality rate ratio (MRR) was used to quantify the increase in pedestrian fatality. 'p<0.05'was selected as the statistically significant level.
Results/Outcomes Between 2006 and 2010, the crude pedestrian fatality increased from 7.0 to 10.5 per 100 000 population. After controlling sex, age and urban/rural, the fatality increased by 44% in the research time period (adjusted MRR=1.11, 95% CI 1.10 to 1.11). Males had higher fatality rate than females (adjusted MRR=2.54, 95% CI 2.48 to 2.61); rural residents were 1.42 times urban residents dying as pedestrians (adjusted MRR=1.42, 95% CI 1.39 to 1.45). Selecting children less than 5 years as the reference, persons ages 5-14 years, 15-24 years, 25-59 years, and 60+ ages had the MRRs as 0.64, 1.42, 2.56, 5.52, respectively.
Significance/Contribution to the Field The recent police-reported decrease in pedestrian fatality may not be true. Non-police-reported data should be applied to improve the quality of pedestrian injury data in China. The high-risk groups of pedestrian fatality--men, rural residents, old age groups, should be addressed in China's injury prevention action.
This is an abstract of a presentation at Safety 2012, the 11th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, 1-4 October 2012, Michael Fowler Center, Wellington, New Zealand. Full text does not seem to be available for this abstract. |