| The road traffic injuries are among the serious
problems of the public health that occur mainly
in low -and middle income countries. The
prerequisite for improving the status of traffic
accidents is a comprehensive data collection
system that is managed correctly. The present
study is a descriptive-applied one conducted to
provide an integrated data management model
for the road traffic injury surveillance system’s
in East Azerbaijan Province in 2017. By using a
comparative study, the road traffic injury
surveillance systems of six countries including
Malaysia, Egypt, the United States, Italy, Peru,
and Iran were studied. A questionnaire
including the main management pivots of road
traffic injury surveillance system was prepared
and it was surveyed among twenty traffic health
specialists through a Delphi method. Based on
the comparative study of the road traffic injury
surveillance system in different countries, traffic
police, emergency department, hospital, legal
medicine, and insurance are introduced as five
data sources. Moreover, the integrated data
management of road traffic injury surveillance
system’s was provided in five pivots including
the minimum data sets of the road traffic injury
surveillance system, data classification method,
data collecting, data restoring, and data
distribution of road traffic injury surveillance
system. For reducing traffic accidents and the
consequences arising from them, a surveillance
system of the local and national traffic accidents
had better to be established so that it will be
possible to root the problems and implement
preventive plans for the road traffic injury through accessing the integrated data. |