: Traffic accidents are an important issue for public health and a threat for sustainable development, with pedestrians and cyclists having been recognized as the most vulnerable actors on the streets. The objective of this study was to analyze the profiles of pedestrians and cyclists who died as a result of traffic accidents in Colombia during the 1998-2019 period. An observational and descriptive study, with the deaths due to traffic accidents in Colombia between 1998 and 2019 as data source.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To synthesize the social inequalities related to mortality from traffic accidents reported in scientific publications.
Method: A scoping review following the PRISMA-ScR guide was carried out. Using the MesH vocabulary, we systematically searched for articles in English, Portuguese and Spanish published in the EBSCO, Scielo, Scopus, Ovid, and PubMed databases.
Objective: To summarize public health policy models reported in studies published between 2002-2017.
Method: Using MesH vocabulary, we systematically searched articles in English, Spanish and Portuguese in the PubMed, Scielo, Jstor, ProQuest and Google Scholar data-bases. The quality of the articles was assessed using the tool for understanding a qualitative study by CASPe.
Introduction: Research projects use statistical resources to express in numerical or graphic terms different magnitudes like frequencies, differences or associations.
Objectives: The purpose of this paper is to describe the statistics tools utilization, with special emphasis in the use of conventional statistical tests and confidence intervals, to communicate results in a renowned public health peer reviewed journal in Colombia.
Methods: We included the 84 articles published in the journal between 2013 and 2014.