The burden of injuries in Nepal: Findings from the NIHR Global Health Research Group

Mytton, Julie; Kumar Joshi, Sunil; Banstola, Amrit; Bhatta, Santosh; Bhatta, Sumiksha; Deave, Toity; Gautam, Preeti; Joshi, Elisha; Joshi, Prerita; Khadka, Anish; Magnus, Dan; Raja Manandhar, Sunil; Pandey, Bidhya; Raj Pant, Puspa; Parkin, John; Pilkington, Paul; Smart, Gary

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Effect of side road junction design enhancements and flows on priority for crossing pedestrians and cyclists (2024)
Journal Article

Enhancements to designs or carriageway markings are increasingly used by engineers to reinforce pedestrians’ and cyclists’ priority when crossing side roads at their junctions with main roads. Yielding behaviour in 13,402 interactions was collected a... Read More about Effect of side road junction design enhancements and flows on priority for crossing pedestrians and cyclists.

Replication of a local record keeping method for collecting road crash data in low resource settings: lessons from Bangladesh and Nepal (2024)
Journal Article

Background. Police road crash and injury data in low- and middle-income countries are known to under-report crashes, fatalities and injuries, especially for vulnerable road users. Local record keepers, who are members of the public, can be engaged to... Read More about Replication of a local record keeping method for collecting road crash data in low resource settings: lessons from Bangladesh and Nepal.

Injury risks for different road users in Nepal: a secondary analysis of routinely collected crash data (2024)
Journal Article

Background: Road traffic injuries are the twelfth leading cause of mortality globally. Nepal, one of the least developed countries in the world, has a rapidly rising rate of road traffic related morbidity and mortality. There is incomplete reporting... Read More about Injury risks for different road users in Nepal: a secondary analysis of routinely collected crash data.

The burden of injuries in Nepal: Findings from the NIHR Global Health Research Group (2024)
Journal Article

Background: Injuries cause significant harm and may lead to disability yet are largely preventable. Understanding the epidemiology and determinants of injury in any given context is an essential step towards effective prevention. In Nepal, surveys su... Read More about The burden of injuries in Nepal: Findings from the NIHR Global Health Research Group.