Pedestrian mortality in road traffic accidents in Brazil: time trend analysis, 1996-2015

• Published in: Epidemiologia e serviços de saúde 2019, Vol.28 (1), p.e2018079-e2018079
• Main Authors: Fernandes, Camila Mariano, Boing, Alexandra Crispim
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Accidents, Traffic - mortality; Accidents, Traffic - statistics & numerical data; Adolescent; Adult; Age Distribution; Brazil - epidemiology; Child; Child, Preschool; Female; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Information Systems - statistics & numerical data; Linear Models; Male; Middle Aged; Pedestrians - statistics & numerical data; Sex Distribution; Time Factors; Wounds and Injuries - epidemiology; Wounds and Injuries - etiology; Wounds and Injuries - mortality; Young Adult
• ISSN: 2237-9622
• DOI: 10.5123/S1679-49742019000100021

to analyze the mortality coefficient trend for road traffic accidents involving pedestrians in Brazil, by sex, age range and macro-region, between 1996 and 2015. this was an ecological time series study using data from the Ministry of Health's Mortality Information System (SIM); Prais-Winstein generalized linear regression was used to calculate annual percentage change. pedestrian deaths corresponded to 26.5% of deaths due to road traffic accidents; mortality among pedestrians decreased 63.2% in the country as a whole, with the standardized coefficient varying between 8.9 to 3.3 per 100,000 inhabitants, although the decrease in the country's North and the Northeast regions was slower than the national average; being run over was significantly higher among men and the elderly. although mortality among pedestrians is decreasing in all regions of the country, current figures still account for a large part of road traffic mortality.