Traumatic brain injury: integrated approaches to improve prevention, clinical care, and research
University of Antwerp · Antwerp University Hospital · +36 more institutions
Abstract
A concerted effort to tackle the global health problem posed by traumatic brain injury (TBI) is long overdue. TBI is a public health challenge of vast, but insufficiently recognised, proportions. Worldwide, more than 50 million people have a TBI each year, and it is estimated that about half the world's population will have one or more TBIs over their lifetime. TBI is the leading cause of mortality in young adults and a major cause of death and disability across all ages in all countries, with a disproportionate burden of disability and death occurring in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). It has been estimated that TBI costs the global economy approximately $US400 billion annually. Deficiencies…
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Authors
335Topics & keywords
- Traumatic brain injury
- Public health
- Medicine
- Population
- Health care
- Societal impact of nanotechnology
- Occupational safety and health
- Years of potential life lost
Funding
- UDU.S. Department of Defense
- GGlaxoSmithKline
- MGMassachusetts General Hospital
- HYHelsingin Yliopisto
- JHJohns Hopkins University
- UOUniversity of Cincinnati
- OBOntario Brain Institute
- NBNHS Blood and Transplant
- HBHotchkiss Brain Institute
- BIBroad Institute
- OMOne Mind
- UGUniversitätsmedizin Göttingen
- ONOntario Neurotrauma Foundation
- NINational Institute for Health and Care Research
- UOUniversity of Exeter
- UOUniversity of Oxford
- ECEuropean Commission
- UOUniversity of Glasgow
- LTLa Trobe University
- NTNanyang Technological University
- ÉPÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- ULUniversiteit Leiden
- MUMonash University
- UOUniversity of Stirling
- EMErasmus Medisch Centrum
- KIKarolinska Institutet
- SUSapienza Università di Roma
- LULeids Universitair Medisch Centrum
- TYTurun Yliopisto
- UDUniversité de Liège
- UAUniversiteit Antwerpen
- Z-ZNS - Hannelore Kohl Stiftung
- UDUniversità degli Studi di Messina
- TYTurun Yliopistollinen Keskussairaala
- RHRenji Hospital
- EBEuropean Brain Council
- NINational Institutes of Health
- USUniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
- UOUniversity of California, San Diego
- UOUniversity of California, San Francisco
- JHJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- SCStanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute
- CICanadian Institutes of Health Research
- FDFonds de Recherche du Québec - Santé
- LKLee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University
- NINational Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
- SOSchool of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
- SOSchool of Medicine, University of California, San Diego