Prevalence and risk factor for injury in sub-Saharan Africa: a multicountry study

Megan B Diamond; Shona Dalal; Clement Adebamowo; David Guwatudde; Carien Laurence; Ikeoluwapo O Ajayi; Francis Bajunirwe; Marina A Njelekela; Faraja Chiwanga; Hans-Olov Adami; Joan Nankya-Mutyoba; Robert Kalyesubula; Todd G Reid; David Hemenway; Michelle D Holmes

doi:10.1136/injuryprev-2016-042254

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Prevalence and risk factor for injury in sub-Saharan Africa: a multicountry study

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Megan B Diamond Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Shona Dalal Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Clement Adebamowo Institute of Human Virology, Abuja, Nigeria Greenebaum Cancer Center and Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
David Guwatudde Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Makerere School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Carien Laurence Centre for Evidence-Based Health Care, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Ikeoluwapo O Ajayi Department of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Faculty of Public Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Francis Bajunirwe Department of Community Health, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Marina A Njelekela Department of Physiology, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Faraja Chiwanga Department of Internal Medicine, Muhimbili National Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Hans-Olov Adami Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Joan Nankya-Mutyoba Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Makerere School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Robert Kalyesubula Department of Medicine, Makerere School of Medicine, Kampala, Uganda PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Todd G Reid Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
David Hemenway Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Michelle D Holmes Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles

Correspondence to Megan B Diamond, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; mbd976{at}mail.harvard.edu

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Diamond MB, Dalal S, Adebamowo C, et al

Prevalence and risk factor for injury in sub-Saharan Africa: a multicountry study

Injury Prevention 2018;24:272-278.

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Received October 20, 2016
Revised May 18, 2017
Accepted June 28, 2017
First published November 8, 2017.

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July 23, 2018

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