TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Public health profile of road traffic accidents in Kosovo 2010-2015
JO  - Open access Macedonian journal of medical sciences
A1  - Ramadani, Naser
A1  - Zhjeqi, Valbona
A1  - Berisha, Merita
A1  - Hoxha, Rina
A1  - Begolli, Ilir
A1  - Salihu, Drita
A1  - Krasniqi, Pranvera
SP  - 1036
EP  - 1041
VL  - 5
IS  - 7
N2  - AIM: To determine the characteristics of the Socio-medical profile of road traffic accidents in Kosovo, between 2010 and 2015 year. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective study. <br><br>METHODS: A descriptive method based on the database of road traffic accidents from the National Police of Kosovo. <br><br>RESULTS: In Kosovo for the period 2010-2015, on average, the yearly number of road traffic accidents is 18437 with mortality rate 7.4 per 100000 and lethality of 1.5%. The highest number of fatal cases are drivers and above 19 years old with more than 80%. Among injured significantly highest percentage is among passengers for all years and above 19 years old. Road traffic accident with a vehicle occurs most frequently, with approximately over 70%, mostly on dry road 72.9% and clear weather 71.1%. The driver is the contributing factors of road traffic accidents on average 99.3% whereas climatic conditions only 0.5%, with over 50% of crashes occurring in urban road 56.2%, mostly during Monday 16.0% and in the afternoon rush hours between 14.00-18.00 with 31.0%. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: There is a slight decrease in the mortality rate of 0.1‰ and lethality rate of 0.1% each year, whereas there is an increase of 21.5‰ for traumatism rate for each year.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1857-9655
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2017.214
ID  - ref1
ER  -