@article{ref1,
title="Incidence of road traffic disabilities trending upwards in transitional China: a retrospective analysis from 1980 to 2005",
journal="BMJ open",
year="2014",
author="Liu, Lan and Du, Wei and Pang, Lihua and Chen, Gong and Zheng, Xiaoying",
volume="4",
number="5",
pages="e004297-e004297",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the change in incidence rates of road traffic disabilities from 1980 to 2005 in China. <br><br>METHODS: We employed the 2006 China National Sample Survey on Disability to derive weighted number of persons with disabilities resulting from road crashes and weighted age-gender-specific population at risk by disability occurrence year. The annual incidence rate of road traffic disabilities and corresponding 95% CI were estimated. We used the World Population Prospects (WPP) and the death rate of people with disabilities (PWD) to estimate potential earlier loss of lives before 2006. Both WPP-adjusted and PWD-adjusted incidence rates of road traffic disabilities were further adjusted using the life table analysis. <br><br>RESULTS: The WPP-adjusted incidence rate for road traffic disabilities increased over time from 1.50 (95% CI 1.47 to 1.52) in 1980 to 11.19 (95% CI 11.13 to 11.25) per 100 000 persons in 2005. The PWD-adjusted incidence rate also increased from 1.71 (95% CI 1.68 to 1.73) to 11.51 (95% CI 11.45 to 11.57) per 100 000 persons. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Road crashes disable thousands of Chinese and remain a significant population health and development problem. The increasing burden of road traffic disabilities calls for more efforts and specific strategies to improve road safety in China.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2044-6055",
doi="10.1136/bmjopen-2013-004297",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-004297"
}