Open AccessTraumatic spinal cord injury in Uganda: a prevention strategy and mechanism to improve home care
Author(s) -
Lynn Stothers,
AJ Macnab,
Ronald Mukisa,
S Mutabazi,
Francis Bajunirwe
Publication year - 2017
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/dyx058
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , spinal cord injury , low and middle income countries , injury prevention , environmental health , poison control , occupational safety and health , health care , suicide prevention , epidemiology , spinal cord , pediatrics , developing country , psychiatry , pathology , economic growth , physics , optics , economics
In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), the burden of traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) is largely unknown. The estimated incidence of TSCI in LMICs is 25.5/million/year, and the impact on affected patients and their families is presumed to be immense due to the social structure, limited health system resources and reliance on family to care for those that survive injury to return home. In sub-Saharan Africa, extrapolated regional figures for incidence range from 21 - 29/million/year, and the occurrence of a spinal injury is likely to be fatal within a year.
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