منابع مشابه
O4: Status of Road Safety and Injury Burden: Europe
Road traffic injuries are an ongoing global health burden and cause more than 1.2 million deaths per year. In Europe, the annual socioeconomic impact accounts for €130 billion. In 2011, the United Nations set a special focus on road safety and injury prevention by the proclamation of the “Decade of Action for Road Safety.” This initiative focuses mainly on developing countries. In Germany, many ...
متن کاملO3: Children are Not Small Adults! What should be done to Better Protect Them?
Road Traffic injuries are known as the most prevalent childhood injury and besides being the greatest cause of child mortality, place an extraordinary burden on health care system. Children’s limitation in cognitive, physical and social development makes them more vulnerable in road traffic injuries than adults. Their small structure cause challenges to see and be seen and their risk taki...
متن کاملComparison and Analysis of Road Traffic Injuries in Iran and the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Findings from the Global Status Report on Road Safety–2018
Background and Objectives: The Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) has the third highest road traffic fatality rate in the world. This article evaluates the epidemiology of road injuries and some of its main control factors in Iran and compares them with other countries of the EMR. Methods: This study was conducted to analyze and compare traffic injuries resulting in mortality using secondar...
متن کاملThe Global Road Safety Programme: work in progress.
Every year over 1.2 million people are killed in road traffic crashes around the world, while an additional 20 to 50 million are injured.1 According to the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010, road traffic injuries (RTIs) are responsible for over a third of the world injury burden and resulted in the loss of 76 million Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs).2 If no action is taken, road traffic...
متن کاملO2: Post-Crash and Trauma Care for Children
Road traffic injuries as a man-made calamity impose great burden on poor people and needs to be addressed through social justice and end of poverty. Pointing out that around 186,300 children under the age of 18 are killed every year, and much more are injured, urgent need to work on road safety measures will be revealed. Although preventing road traffic crashes from occurring should be the main...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of orthopaedic trauma
دوره 28 Suppl 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014