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On the road to prevention: road injury and health promotion
Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 2014Road traffic injuries are already the leading cause of injury mortality and morbidity globally and by 2030 are predicted to be the fifth leading cause of mortality in the world. Australia has seen a dramatic reduction in road deaths and serious injuries since the 1970s and holds an international reputation for road traffic injury prevention due, in ...
Mark, Stevenson, Jason, Thompson
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Road traffic injuries in Colombia
Injury Control and Safety Promotion, 2003Road traffic injuries are a leading public health problem in Colombia. Pedestrians are the most vulnerable road users, especially in the main urban centers of Bogotá, Medellin and Cali. Data analyzed in this report include official statistics from the National Police and the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences for 1996-2000, and ...
Deysi Yasmin, Rodríguez +2 more
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Road Traffic Injuries in Sharjah
International Journal of Epidemiology, 1981Hospital data of all patients seen as a result of road traffic accident injuries are presented for the year 1977. A follow-up study was carried out in December 1978 of those patients admitted with fractures of the skull and spine. The road traffic accident rate was 810 per 100 000 and the death rate was 25 per 100 000.
J M, Weddell, A, McDougall
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Road Injuries of Motorcyclists
2021The file: Dataset 1.xlsx, contains information related to deaths and the respective dictionary of variables. The file: Dataset 2.xlsx, contains information related to those injured by motorcyclist road incidents "in situ" obtained from police records and the respective dictionary of variables.
Hugo Grisales-Romero +1 more
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Road traffic injuries in Mozambique
Injury Control and Safety Promotion, 2003Road traffic injuries affect the economy, health and quality of life of the people of Mozambique. Current road safety programmes are inadequate and inefficient given the magnitude of the problem. Data reported on road traffic crashes in the period 1990 to 2000 from the National Institute for Road Safety, the traffic police and the Central Hospital of ...
Francelina, Romão +9 more
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The construction of a road injury database
Accident Analysis & Prevention, 1993In order to effectively examine possible causes and determinants of road trauma, reliable information on the participants, circumstances, and resultant injuries and deaths must be available. Characteristics of participants (persons and vehicles) and the circumstances of road accidents are routinely collected by police and road authorities, whereas ...
A M, Ferrante, D L, Rosman, M W, Knuiman
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Sports Medicine, 1995
Off-road bicycles, commonly called 'mountain bikes', have become increasingly popular worldwide since their introduction in the western US in the late 1970s. This popularity is partly because these vehicles can be ridden on a wide variety of terrain which is not accessible to other types of bicycle.
R P, Pfeiffer, R L, Kronisch
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Off-road bicycles, commonly called 'mountain bikes', have become increasingly popular worldwide since their introduction in the western US in the late 1970s. This popularity is partly because these vehicles can be ridden on a wide variety of terrain which is not accessible to other types of bicycle.
R P, Pfeiffer, R L, Kronisch
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Road traffic injuries: a stocktaking
Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology, 2008Once we accept that road traffic injury control is a public health problem, and that we have an ethical responsibility to arrange for the safety of individuals, then it follows that health and medical professionals have to assume responsibility for participating in efforts to control this pandemic.
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Road traffic injury prevention
Injury Prevention, 2010In November of last year, ministers from over 70 countries attended the First Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety, hosted by the Russian Federation and held in Moscow. The resulting “Moscow Declaration” calls upon the United Nations to declare a “Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011–20”.
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