Title |
Severity of injuries in different modes of transport, expressed with disability-adjusted life years (DALYs)
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Published in |
BMC Public Health, July 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-14-765 |
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Authors |
Marko Tainio, Dorota Olkowicz, Grzegorz Teresiński, Audrey de Nazelle, Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen |
Abstract |
Health impact assessment (HIA) studies are increasingly predicting the health effects of mode shifts in traffic. The challenge for such studies is to combine the health effects, caused by injuries, with the disease driven health effects, and to express the change in the health with a common health indicator. Disability-adjusted life year (DALY) combines years lived disabled or injured (YLD) and years of life lost (YLL) providing practical indicator to combine injuries with diseases. In this study, we estimate the average YLDs for one person injured in a transport crash to allow easy to use methods to predict health effects of transport injuries. |
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