Erschienen in:
01.10.2013 | Orthopaedic Healthcare Worldwide
Collaborative Partnerships and the Future of Global Orthopaedics
verfasst von:
Saam Morshed, MD, PhD, MPH, David W. Shearer, MD, MPH, R. Richard Coughlin, MD, MSc
Erschienen in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Ausgabe 10/2013
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Excerpt
The body of evidence illustrating the impact of injury and musculoskeletal disease on global health continues to grow. The 2010 Global Burden of Disease study [
11] estimated that injury accounted for 11% of disability-adjusted life years globally, with the majority occurring in low- and middle-income countries as a result of road-traffic injuries. There are an estimated 1.2 million deaths and an additional 20 to 50 million nonfatal injuries from road-traffic injuries [
14]. Appropriately, the WHO declared 2011 to 2020 a Decade of Action for road traffic safety [
8]. This public health effort to promote injury prevention is likely to have an enormous long-term impact. However, while awaiting effective policy and infrastructure changes, orthopaedic surgeons in low- and middle-income countries are managing an overwhelming volume of musculoskeletal injuries with limited resources. …
