Discussion 15 Police data for road injuries

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Discussion 15 Police data for road injuries

Last Update: Feb 12th 2010

Status of discussion: Closed

Lead author: David Bartels (davidhbartels@gmail.com), Kavi Bhalla (kavi_bhalla@harvard.edu), Pon-Hsiu Yeh (ponpon@gmail.com)

Additional authors: Francisco Lopez-Valdes, Muazzam Nasrullah

Lurking members: James Harrison

Issue: Government statistics websites for most developing countries report national deaths from road traffic injuries. However, the likelihood of severe under-reporting by police, makes this an unreliable source of information. This discussion will explore how police reported data can be made more useful for GBD analysis.

What are we doing?

We have been comparing country police data for road deaths with our estimates from death registration and other sources.

    1. We have conducted a systematic comparison of road injury deaths reported in the 2009 WHO Global Status Report on Road Safety with estimates from national death registration data. Please visit sub-topic Discussion 15.1 for current results from this investigation.
    2. Our road injury web pages describe results from the comparison of fatal and non-fatal road injuries from multiple sources in 18 developing countries.