Potential Years of Life Lost Due to Traffic Accidents in Uruguay

EasyChair Preprint 8991

Abstract

The Potential Years of Life Lost (PYLL) are a demographic indicator that allows quantifying how many years, on average, have been lost due to a set of causes of death, in particular. They are calculated as the sum, for all deaths, of the difference in years between the age of the deceased and a certain limiting age L, which in the present investigation is specified as life expectancy at age x. Traffic accidents in Uruguay are one of the external causes with the highest number of deaths and one of the first in the age group that includes 15 to 45 years. The results obtained are visualized through a graphical interface developed using the shiny package in R. It can be concluded that deaths and YPLL due to traffic accidents have a male, young profile, where deaths among motorcycle drivers dominate in the contribution to the total YPLL . Comparing across accident scenarios, deaths among motorcycle riders have a median age of less than 30 years, while deaths among pedestrians have a median age of more than 60 years.

Keyphrases: APVP, Shiny, Siniestros de Tránsito

@booklet{EasyChair:8991,
  author    = {Gonzalo De Armas and Mauro Loprete and Ramón Álvarez-Vaz},
  title     = {Potential Years of Life Lost Due to Traffic Accidents in Uruguay},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 8991},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2022}}