Citation

Tiwari G. Int. J. Inj. Control Safe. Promot. 2021; 28(1): 1-2.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2021, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/17457300.2021.1876386

PMID

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Abstract

In this unending season of the coronavirus pandemic, we recognise with appreciation the efforts put in by all the contributors to our journal, including those whose work did not manage to find inclusion in these pages. We welcome the new decade with hope and promise of meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal(UN SDG) target 3.6, i.e. reducing deaths due to road traffic injuries by half before the end of this decade. In a continuation of the same spirit, we renew our invitation to researchers and scholars in the field to press on with their good work and keep our submission trays full.

The present issue has a spurt of six contributions from USA, in three of which the contributors have collaborated with researchers from other countries. We welcome these cross-country collaborative efforts, particularly between the high income and other countries as it makes for the adoption (where possible) of best practices in one part of the world, adapting to local conditions in another part of the world.

Three articles in this issue have addressed the all-time important pedestrian safety issue. Ali Coleen Fant et al. from USA, have used a combined database from hospital and transportation sources to make a comparative study of injury severity among pediatric pedestrians (in the age group 0-19) in rural and urban areas. Mild and soft tissue injuries were more common in urban settings, while the more severe injuries were more likely to occur in the rural areas, which would point to these factors impinging on population density. The present essay posits a linkage between hospital discharge data and crash data, which leads one to believe that this database could be extended to include other databases for further investigations in the future...

Language: en