Hiwot Y Zewdie, Olga Lucia Sarmiento, Jose David Pinzón, Maria A Wilches-Mogollon, Pablo Andres Arbelaez, Laura Baldovino-Chiquillo, Dario Hidalgo, Luis Angel Guzman, Stephen J Mooney, Quynh C Nguyen, Tolga Tasdizen, D Alex Quistberg
Nine in 10 road traffic deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Despite this disproportionate burden, few studies have examined built environment correlates of road traffic injury in these settings, including in Latin America. We examined road traffic collisions in Bogotá, Colombia, occurring between 2015 and 2019, and assessed the association between neighborhood-level built environment features and pedestrian injury and death. We used descriptive statistics to characterize all police-reported road traffic collisions that occurred in Bogotá between 2015 and 2019...
April 8, 2024: Journal of Urban Health