Amber Mehmood

Most RTC patients first sought care from nearby health facilities. The rural RTC cases first visited the UpHCs. On the other hand, people living in urban areas or those who experienced road traffic accidents in urban areas outside Dhaka first visited the district/general hospitals or private facilities. Findings revealed a lack of trauma care services in the emergency or inpatient facilities, including the absence of any triage facility on arrival of the RTC patients.

Background The World Health Organization defines workplace violence (WPV) as “incidents where staff is abused, threatened, or assaulted in circumstances related to their work, including commuting to and from work, involving an explicit or implicit challenge to their safety, wellbeing or health” (1). Workplace violence includes both physical and verbal violence and can be categorized into four types depending on the perpetrator’s relationship to the workplace.

1. Introduction Pediatric pedestrian injuries comprise over half of the pediatric trauma evaluations at hospitals across the United States (1). Children are at a greater risk of morbidity and mortality from pedestrian-related injuries, but the burden of pedestrian injuries differentially impacts children within certain populations (2). The risk of child pedestrian death is greater for males, pre-school-aged children, and those in rural areas (3).