TY - JOUR
T1 - Health implications of age and gender injury patterns of non-vehicle pedestrian trauma
AU - Rod, J. E.
AU - King, Mark
AU - Senserrick, Teresa
AU - Oviedo-Trespalacios, Oscar
N1 - Funding Information:
The research team would like to acknowledge the contribution of Dr. Angela Watson in the ethics application process and in the process of interpreting QISU data. This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. J.E. Rod time was funded by an ANT-South American scholarship. Dr. Oscar Oviedo-Trespalacios is funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award [DE200101079].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2021/9
Y1 - 2021/9
N2 - Introduction: Walking is a healthy, environmentally sustainable, and economically profitable transportation strategy for citizens and governments. Despite these benefits, it is also important to understand, and to inform health professionals, policymakers, and public infrastructure planners about, the preventable injury potential of walking in the transportation system and the distribution of injury by gender and age. This is especially important for non-vehicle pedestrian trauma, given that is more prevalent and there is less information available about its injury outcomes in comparison to pedestrian injury caused by vehicle collisions. Method: A retrospective cohort study, and cross-sectional bivariate and multivariate analyses of non-vehicle pedestrian trauma in the traffic environment (NVPTE) were conducted. Relative risks (RR) of the incidence of injury and prevalence of injury outcomes by age and gender were calculated using data collected by the Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit (QISU) in Australia. Results: Pedestrians aged 60+ have a consistently higher risk of NVPTE incidence when compared with pedestrians aged
AB - Introduction: Walking is a healthy, environmentally sustainable, and economically profitable transportation strategy for citizens and governments. Despite these benefits, it is also important to understand, and to inform health professionals, policymakers, and public infrastructure planners about, the preventable injury potential of walking in the transportation system and the distribution of injury by gender and age. This is especially important for non-vehicle pedestrian trauma, given that is more prevalent and there is less information available about its injury outcomes in comparison to pedestrian injury caused by vehicle collisions. Method: A retrospective cohort study, and cross-sectional bivariate and multivariate analyses of non-vehicle pedestrian trauma in the traffic environment (NVPTE) were conducted. Relative risks (RR) of the incidence of injury and prevalence of injury outcomes by age and gender were calculated using data collected by the Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit (QISU) in Australia. Results: Pedestrians aged 60+ have a consistently higher risk of NVPTE incidence when compared with pedestrians aged
KW - Injury
KW - Outcomes
KW - Patterns
KW - Pedestrian falls
KW - Prevention
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jth.2021.101130
DO - 10.1016/j.jth.2021.101130
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85110770488
SN - 2214-1405
VL - 22
JO - Journal of Transport and Health
JF - Journal of Transport and Health
M1 - 101130
ER -
