TY - JOUR ID - 16173 TI - Lost Output by Road Traffic Injuries in Iran, an Estimate Based on Disability-Adjusted Life Years Index JO - International Journal of Transportation Engineering JA - IJTE LA - en SN - 2322-259X AU - Behnood, Hamid Reza AU - Haddadi, Mashyaneh AU - Sirous, Shadrokh AD - Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Imam Khomeini International University, Ghazvin, Iran. AD - Ph.D. Social Medicine, Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Department, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran AD - MSc, Biostatistics, World Health Organization Representative Office, Tehran, Iran Y1 - 2016 PY - 2016 VL - 3 IS - 4 SP - 253 EP - 266 KW - Road traffic injuries KW - Economic Cost KW - Lost Output KW - Gross Domestic Product DO - 10.22119/ijte.2016.16173 N2 - The main objective of this study is to estimate a part of road traffic injury costs including costs due to fatality and disability, which are related to lost social products. Lost output consists of costs, which are related to losses of national product or lost-income in death, hospitalization or physical disabilities. In recent years, the Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) has been used as an appropriate criterion to measure mortality and disability burden from different diseases. The DALYs index for a definite disease is defined as total years of life lost due to a premature death (YLL) and the years lost due to disability (YLD) for the disease. The distribution of fatalities and disabilities in age intervals takes advantage of official references including Legal Medicine Organization reports on road fatalities and Harvard University surveys in road-crash-related disability dispersion in Iran. According to this distribution, life expectancy can be determined for the used age distribution in this study. This study indicates that the highest amount of the life years lost due to road fatalities belongs to the age range of 11-29 years old in Iran for whom, an average value of lost useful life is estimated more than 12 years. The total output value or lost product due to death or disabilities by traffic injuries is estimated approximately 1.4 Billion USD in 2011. As a social cumulative criterion, it stands for the second cost contributing factor after medical costs. The study has shown that the lost output is identified as the main part of costs imposed on each individual killed by a road traffic injury. UR - http://www.ijte.ir/article_16173.html L1 - http://www.ijte.ir/article_16173_0a2378ed7c1069c2b951322c9720a70d.pdf ER -