The Economic Burden of Road Traffic Accidents in Iran: The Time to Sound the Alarm

نویسندگان

1 Trauma Research Center, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran

doi
10.4103/atr.atr_77_18
چکیده

Over the past half century, as a result of urbanization, overpopulation, and industrialization, the rapid development of comprehensive road transportation has been resulted. Increasing motorized traffic and following that, road traffic accidents (RTAs) were one of the undisputed results of such process. Hence, the casualties and financial and psychological losses caused by RTAs have become one of the most important challenges of human societies. It is common practice to assess the burden of RTAs in terms of disability‑adjusted life years (DALYs).