The burden of hospitalization of road crash victims in a secondary health care facility in Oyo, Nigeria
| dc.contributor.author | Ipingbemi, O | |
| dc.contributor.author | Dandy, O. A | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-10-08T13:31:45Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-10-08T13:31:45Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-12 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The study examined the hospitalization burden of road crash (injured) victims in Oyo town. Primary data were collected through questionnaire administration and In-Depth interview. One-hundred crash victims were involved in the survey. Secondary data were sourced from the General hospital records. Descriptive statistics were used for data analysis. Findings indicated that 65% of road crash victims were males, about 87% of them were less than 50 years old and 85% earned not more than N10,000 per month. The length of stay (LOS) showed that each crash victims spent 39 days on the average in the hospital and incurred a daily expense of N750 throughout the victim stay in the hospital. The consequences included reduced income (18.9%), job loss (8.4%) and abandoned by friends and family members (16.8%) among others. The paper calls for improved pre-hospital trauma care and the establishment of Road Accident Fund in order to ameliorate the burden of road crash victims. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2384-7379 | |
| dc.identifier.other | Ibadan Planning Journal 1(2), pp. 127-136 | |
| dc.identifier.other | ui_art_ipingbemi_burden_2011 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://ir.library.ui.edu.ng/handle/123456789/1101 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Ibadan | en_US |
| dc.title | The burden of hospitalization of road crash victims in a secondary health care facility in Oyo, Nigeria | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |