Estimating the global incidence of traumatic brain injury

Abstract

Traumatic brain injury (TBI)—the “silent epidemic”—contributes to worldwide death and disability more than any other traumatic insult. Yet, TBI incidence and distribution across regions and socioeconomic divides remain unknown. In an effort to promote advocacy, understanding, and targeted intervention, the authors sought to quantify the case burden of TBI across World Health Organization (WHO) regions and World Bank (WB) income groups.

Document Details

• Document Type: Pub Defense Publication
• Publication Date: Apr 01, 2019
• Source ID: 10.3171/2017.10.jns17352

Entities

People

• Abbas Rattani
• Amit Agrawal
• Amos O. Adeleye
• Andrés M. Rubiano
• Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld
• Kee B. Park
• Maria Punchak
• Mark G. Shrime
• Michael C. Dewan
• Ronnie E. Baticulon
• Saksham Gupta
• Ya-ching Hung

Organizations

• El Bosque University
• Harvard Medical School
• Meharry Medical College
• Monash University
• Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt
• Philippine General Hospital
• The Alfred Hospital
• Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
• University College Hospital
• University of California, Los Angeles
• University of Ibadan

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