Abstract

ROSELLI, Diego. Social value of motorcycle related deaths in Colombia. Salud, Barranquilla [online]. 2018, vol.34, n.3, pp.806-813. ISSN 0120-5552.

In Colombia, in 2014 there were 5 546 029 registered motorcycles. In the period 2010-2014 11 948 motorcyclists died, including both drivers and passengers (10,331, 86.4 % were men), 2,673 of them died in 2014, an increase of 27 % compared with 2010. The most affected five-year age group in that year was 20 to 24 years, with 552 dead (488 men and 64 women). In total, the motorcyclists who died that year in Colombia lost 122 488 years of potential life. If the financial value of life used in cost-effectiveness studies (equivalent to three times the per capita gross domestic product per year of life earned) were applied, (in that year, it was COP 15,893,361 or USD 7944), those deaths would have a social cost of $ 5.84 trillion pesos. To cover this cost, each motorcycle should contribute $ 1 053 049 (USD 526) per year to the health system to compensate for the deaths associated with them.

Keywords : Accidents, traffic, costs and cost analysis, cost of illness; mortality; motorcycles; life expectancy.

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