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State of pedestrian road safety in Uganda: a qualitative study of existing interventions

BACKGROUND: Pedestrians in Uganda account for 40% of road traffic fatalities and 25% of serious injuries annually. We explored the current pedestrian road traffic injury interventions in Uganda to understand why pedestrian injuries and deaths continue despite the presence of interventions. METHODS:...

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Autores principales: Osuret, Jimmy, Namatovu, Stellah, Biribawa, Claire, Balugaba, Bonny Enock, Zziwa, Esther Bayiga, Muni, Kennedy, Ningwa, Albert, Oporia, Frederick, Mutto, Milton, Kyamanywa, Patrick, Guwatudde, David, Kobusingye, Olive
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Publicado: Makerere Medical School 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8843294/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35222616
http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v21i3.62
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author Osuret, Jimmy
Namatovu, Stellah
Biribawa, Claire
Balugaba, Bonny Enock
Zziwa, Esther Bayiga
Muni, Kennedy
Ningwa, Albert
Oporia, Frederick
Mutto, Milton
Kyamanywa, Patrick
Guwatudde, David
Kobusingye, Olive
author_facet Osuret, Jimmy
Namatovu, Stellah
Biribawa, Claire
Balugaba, Bonny Enock
Zziwa, Esther Bayiga
Muni, Kennedy
Ningwa, Albert
Oporia, Frederick
Mutto, Milton
Kyamanywa, Patrick
Guwatudde, David
Kobusingye, Olive
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description BACKGROUND: Pedestrians in Uganda account for 40% of road traffic fatalities and 25% of serious injuries annually. We explored the current pedestrian road traffic injury interventions in Uganda to understand why pedestrian injuries and deaths continue despite the presence of interventions. METHODS: We conducted a qualitative study that involved a desk review of road safety policy, regulatory documents, and reports. We supplemented the document review with 14 key informant interviews and 4 focus group discussions with participants involved in road safety. Qualitative thematic content analysis was done using ATLAS. ti 7 software. RESULTS: Five thematic topics emerged. Specifically, Uganda had a Non-Motorized Transport Policy whose implementation revealed several gaps. The needs of pedestrians and contextual evidence were ignored in road systems. The key programmatic challenges in pedestrian road safety management included inadequate funding, lack of political support, and lack of stakeholder collaboration. There was no evidence of plans for monitoring and evaluation of the various pedestrian road safety interventions. CONCLUSION: The research revealed low prioritization of pedestrian needs in the design, implementation, and evaluation of pedestrian road safety interventions. Addressing Uganda's pedestrian needs requires concerted efforts to coordinate all road safety activities, political commitment, and budgetary support at all levels.
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spelling pubmed-88432942022-02-24 State of pedestrian road safety in Uganda: a qualitative study of existing interventions Osuret, Jimmy Namatovu, Stellah Biribawa, Claire Balugaba, Bonny Enock Zziwa, Esther Bayiga Muni, Kennedy Ningwa, Albert Oporia, Frederick Mutto, Milton Kyamanywa, Patrick Guwatudde, David Kobusingye, Olive Afr Health Sci Articles BACKGROUND: Pedestrians in Uganda account for 40% of road traffic fatalities and 25% of serious injuries annually. We explored the current pedestrian road traffic injury interventions in Uganda to understand why pedestrian injuries and deaths continue despite the presence of interventions. METHODS: We conducted a qualitative study that involved a desk review of road safety policy, regulatory documents, and reports. We supplemented the document review with 14 key informant interviews and 4 focus group discussions with participants involved in road safety. Qualitative thematic content analysis was done using ATLAS. ti 7 software. RESULTS: Five thematic topics emerged. Specifically, Uganda had a Non-Motorized Transport Policy whose implementation revealed several gaps. The needs of pedestrians and contextual evidence were ignored in road systems. The key programmatic challenges in pedestrian road safety management included inadequate funding, lack of political support, and lack of stakeholder collaboration. There was no evidence of plans for monitoring and evaluation of the various pedestrian road safety interventions. CONCLUSION: The research revealed low prioritization of pedestrian needs in the design, implementation, and evaluation of pedestrian road safety interventions. Addressing Uganda's pedestrian needs requires concerted efforts to coordinate all road safety activities, political commitment, and budgetary support at all levels. Makerere Medical School 2021-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8843294/ /pubmed/35222616 http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v21i3.62 Text en © 2021 Osuret J et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee African Health Sciences. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Biribawa, Claire
Balugaba, Bonny Enock
Zziwa, Esther Bayiga
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Ningwa, Albert
Oporia, Frederick
Mutto, Milton
Kyamanywa, Patrick
Guwatudde, David
Kobusingye, Olive
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8843294/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35222616
http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v21i3.62
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