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Volume 6 Issue 10 (October, 2018)

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Verbal Autopsy Of Road Traffic Accident Cases in and around Dhanbad, Jharkhand
Raj Kishore Verma, Sumit Verma

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the Road Traffic Accident(RTA) at national, state and district level. An alarming state has been created due to increasing incidents of RTA cases. At present RTA is one of the important cause of morbidity and mortality in India along with other developing countries. Every year approx. One million people are injured whereas 10% of which are killed. Thus India loses around 5 crores annually which is around 2-3% of Gross Domestic Product(GDP). The study shall help to find out the measures of Prevention. Research question – To find out epidemiological factors resulting in RTA. Study design - Descriptive study. Statistical analysis - Proportions. Key words: RTA, Road Safety, Trauma, Injuries, Accidents.

 
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