Prepared by: Mateja Rok Simon and Tina Zupanič 
Date of last change: March 2017

Purpose and justification of the indicator

Injuries in traffic accidents are the leading cause of premature mortality in children and young adults. In Slovenia, injuries are the second main cause of loss of healthy years of life, to which injuries in traffic accidents contribute the most. Every Slovene who dies prematurely in traffic loses an average of 26 years of his life, which he could have lived to the age of 64. Injuries in traffic accidents in adolescents and young adults are also the main cause of admission to hospital for treatment. Most injuries in traffic are predictable and preventable, so data on injuries in traffic accidents is used to prepare appropriate policies and measures to reduce the burden of such injuries.

Definition of indicator

The indicator Injured in transport accidents describes the number of hospital treatments due to injuries in transport accidents per 1,000 inhabitants in the observed calendar year.
An age-standardized rate is calculated, which enables mutual comparison of populations with different age structures of the population,

Unit of measure

Calculation of the indicator

The rate of hospital treatment due to injuries in transport accidents is the ratio between the number of first hospital treatments due to injuries in transport accidents in the observed calendar year and the number of inhabitants in the middle of the same year, multiplied by 1,000. External causes of injuries, which are included in the calculation, are V01-V99 according to ICD-10 or V00-V99 according to IKB-10-AM.
Injured in transport accidents
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The direct standardization method is used for standardization, where the Slovenian population from 2014 is used as the standard population. The 2016 publications show the average of three consecutive years (2012-2014), and the 2017 publications show the average of four consecutive years (2012-2015).

Data sources for Slovenia

Record of Diseases, Poisonings, and Injuries Requiring Hospital Treatment, National Institute of Public Health.
Population, Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia.

Time availability

The data are published annually, available since 1988.

Men in literature

<ol>
<li>National Institute of Public Health ( <a href="http://www.nijz.si/">http://www.nijz.si/</a> ).</li>
<li>Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia ( <a href="http://www.stat.si/statweb">http://www.stat.si/statweb</a> ). </li>
</ol>

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