@article{ref1,
title="Road Traffic Injury Is an Escalating Burden in Africa and Deserves Proportionate Research Efforts",
journal="Public Library of Science medicine",
year="2007",
author="Lagarde, Emmanuel",
volume="4",
number="6",
pages="e170-e170",
abstract="Research into road safety in developing countries is scarce, especially in Africa. This is inconsistent with the size of the problem: it has been predicted that by 2020, road traffic injuries will rank as high as third among causes of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) lost. While South-East Asia has the highest proportion of global road fatalities (one-third of the 1.4 million occurring each year in the world), the road traffic injury mortality rate is highest in Africa (28.3 per 100,000 population when corrected for under-reporting, compared with 11.0 in Europe. I selected eleven African countries with recent available data on road mortality and number of vehicles in use. When comparing death per 10,000 vehicles, the contrast appears even more stark, with 1.7 deaths per 10,000 vehicles in high-income countries across the world and more than 50 per 10,000 in low-income African countries.  <p>Article: 2400 words plus tables and figures. 69 refs</p>  <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1549-1277",
doi="10.1371/journal.pmed.0040170",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040170"
}