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Estimating deaths and injuries due to road traffic accidents in Karachi, Pakistan, through the capture-recapture method

Author(s) -

Junaid Razzak

Publication year - 1998

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/27.5.866

Subject(s) - mark and recapture , road traffic , poison control , injury prevention , occupational safety and health , medicine , environmental health , suicide prevention , geography , human factors and ergonomics , medical emergency , demography , transport engineering , population , engineering , sociology , pathology

Road traffic accidents (RTA) are an important yet preventable cause of death and disability in developing countries like Pakistan. Yet accurate epidemiological data on injuries in developing country injuries is often difficult to obtain. We applied the capture-recapture method to estimate the death and injury rates due to RTA in Karachi.

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