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Developments in the prevention of road injuries
Injury, 1979Selected studies of road injury causation since 1960 are reviewed together with corresponding methods of prevention. British road accident deaths have remained relatively low in spite of greatly increased numbers of vehicles. Though not the only factors, improvements in car design and in safety equipment of vehicles have contributed to injury ...
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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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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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Injury, 1970
Of the 4342 admissions of road accident cases to the Birmingham Accident Hospital in 1961, 1268 were admitted as in-patients, about half of these were short-stay cases and about one-quarter severe cases requiring intensive care. Of the in-patients, about one-quarter were pedestrians, and motor-cyclists ⋆ and car occupants accounted for one-half ...
W. Gissane, J. Bull, Barbara Roberts
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Of the 4342 admissions of road accident cases to the Birmingham Accident Hospital in 1961, 1268 were admitted as in-patients, about half of these were short-stay cases and about one-quarter severe cases requiring intensive care. Of the in-patients, about one-quarter were pedestrians, and motor-cyclists ⋆ and car occupants accounted for one-half ...
W. Gissane, J. Bull, Barbara Roberts
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Road traffic injuries in the province of Grosseto
Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene, 2007Introduction. Road traffic injuries constitute a major public health issue. The Province of Grosseto is one of the territories most affected in the Region of Tuscany. The objective of the study, part of the Road Safety Provincial Council?s project, is to describe the epidemiology of the road accidents in order to contribute to the reduction of the ...
M A, Martiello +7 more
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Serious road injuries in The Netherlands dissected
Traffic Injury Prevention, 2015This article discusses the characteristics and injury patterns of serious road injuries (Maximum Abbreviated Injury Scale [MAIS] 2+ inpatients) in The Netherlands.In The Netherlands, the actual number of serious injuries is estimated by linking police data to hospital data.
Wendy, Weijermars +2 more
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According to the World Health Organization, road traffic crashes account for more than a million deaths per year, with 20–50 times more individuals suffering from non-fatal injuries, frequently resulting in disability. As such, the evaluation of traumatic injuries sustained in road traffic incidents is very common in general daily forensic pathology ...
Marianne Tiemensma, Andrew Scott Reid
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Marianne Tiemensma, Andrew Scott Reid
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Road traffic injuries in conflict areas
Injury Prevention, 2013The United Nations (UN) has proclaimed the years 2011–2020 as the Decade of Action for Road Safety.1 The related public health actions are of particular importance to those living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).2 These actions are more focused on highly populated LMICs where development needs have been leading to increased motorisation ...
Luis Manuel Rosa, Sosa, Junaid A, Bhatti
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Some Aspects of Road Traffic Injuries
World Journal of Surgery, 2005Today, it is hard to imagine how we human beings lived without cars. Yet, motor vehicles can also cause a great number of deaths and injuries and considerable economic loss, which causes a global burden. Understanding the occurrence and increasing number of road traffic injuries will contribute to the prevention and control of these accidents and to ...
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Injury on the Road and in the Air
1986Patterns of injury are changing continuously as man devises new modes of transport, new firearms and other injurious devices. Seat-belt legislation has significantly reduced the mortality and morbidity from head injury to the occupants of vehicles1. However, the motorcycle continues to exert a constant toll of death amongst young men.
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