Looking back on 10 years of global road safety
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Author(s)
Peden, Margaret M
Puvanachandra, Prasanthi
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Every year more than 1.35 million people lose their lives on the road and tens of millions more are injured, some permanently. Since the early 2000s there has been renewed focus on the issue, with the United Nations, World Health Organization and the World Bank placing the issue higher on their agendas. Guided by the United Nations General Assembly, World Health Assembly resolutions and ministerial-level conferences on the global road safety crisis, multisectoral partnerships have synthesised the evidence, advocated for action (there are two Sustainable Development Goal targets with an ambitious goal of reducing deaths and injuries from road traffic crashes by 50%), raised public awareness, generated funding, piloted interventions and monitored progress. And yet the total number of deaths has plateaued despite some sporadic country-level successes. More needs to be done—more people need to be trained in countries to deliver, monitor and evaluate a systems approach to road safety, more solid evidence of what works in low-resource settings is needed (including sustainable transportation options) and there needs to be a greater focus on optimising care and support for those injured in crashes—if we are to begin to see numbers come down in the next decade.
Date Issued
2019-09-01
Date Acceptance
2019-05-09
Citation
International Health, 2019, 11 (5), pp.327-330
ISSN
1876-3405
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Start Page
327
End Page
330
Journal / Book Title
International Health
Volume
11
Issue
5
Copyright Statement
© The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.
This article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model (https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model). This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in International Health following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Margaret M Peden, Prasanthi Puvanachandra, Looking back on 10 years of global road safety, International Health, Volume 11, Issue 5, September 2019, Pages 327–330 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/inthealth/ihz042
This article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model (https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model). This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in International Health following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Margaret M Peden, Prasanthi Puvanachandra, Looking back on 10 years of global road safety, International Health, Volume 11, Issue 5, September 2019, Pages 327–330 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/inthealth/ihz042
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
accidents
crashes
global
injury
prevention
road safety
road traffic injuries
DECADE
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2019-05-30