Journal article
The economic burden of road traffic injuries on households in South Asia
K Alam, A Mahal
Plos One | PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE | Published : 2016
Abstract
Globally, road traffic injuries accounted for about 1.36 million deaths in 2015 and are projected to become the fourth leading cause of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) lost by 2030. One-fifth of these deaths occurred in South Asia where road traffic injuries are projected to increase by 144% by 2020. Despite this rapidly increasing disease burden there is limited evidence on the economic burden of road traffic injuries on households in South Asia. We applied a novel coarsened exact matching method to assess the household economic burden of road traffic injuries using nationally representative World Health Survey data from five South Asian countries-Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan a..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by an Australian Postgraduate Award (PhD scholarship).r KA acknowledges funding support from the Australian Postgraduate Award. AM acknowledges funding support from the Alan & Elizabeth Finkel Chair in Global Health of Monash University.