Desigualdades en seguridad vial por fallecimientos en peatones

Pedestrians are the most vulnerable road users, factors such as age and sex are important. Objective: To know the inequalities of mortality due to accidents in Traffic Accidents (TA) according to age and sex in Ecuador. Methodology: Observational and descriptive study, data taken from the National Transit Agency. DF, mortality rate (MR), potential years of life lost (PYLL) and relative risk (RR) are calculated. Results: 41,427 accidents, 3,211 deaths due to nationwide TA, 19% pedestrians, 74% men (3:1 ratio in comparison with women); 41% due to vehicle driver not giving way to pedestrians and 59% due to pedestrian carelessness; December (n = 54) and May (n = 44) 2017 were the months with the highest mortality in urban areas. Low decrease in fatalities (y = -0.909 - x = +42.03; R² = 0.282); MR of 35.3, men ≥ 80 years with higher adjusted rates, ≥65 years higher risk of death, especially women, 19,362 PYLL; girls-women up to 14 years old > PYLL Index. Pedestrians ≥ 65 years more vulnerable and higher risk users. In conclusion, the public policies taken to reduce accident rate and mortality in Ecuador provide low impact results, this is confirmed by the 2nd place that Ecuador occupies in the TA mortality ranking of Latin American countries analyzed in this study

• Autores: Gómez García, Antonio Ramón; Olivo Cando, Zoila Isabel; Campos Villalta, Yolis Yajaira; Suasnavas Bermudez, Pablo Roberto; Cárdenas Moncayo, Isabel
• Fecha de publicación: 2019
• Institución: Universidad Santo Tomás
• Repositorio: Universidad Santo Tomás
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repository.usta.edu.co:11634/42144
• Acceso en línea: https://revistas.usantotomas.edu.co/index.php/signos/article/view/5420; http://hdl.handle.net/11634/42144
• License: http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2