World report on road traffic injury prevention

Traffic accident injuries are serious but neglected public health concerns that require cooperative efforts to achieve effective and sustainable prevention. Of all the systems people have to deal with daily, road transportation systems are the most complicated and dangerous. About 2 million people die worldwide annually in traffic accidents and 50 million people are injured. Unless there is a new initiative to prevent, we predict that these figures will increase by about 65% over the next 20 years. Nevertheless, the tragedy behind these figures is attracting the attention of the mass media. It is not another frequent type of tragedy.

The World Report on Traffic Accident Prevention is the first major report announced jointly by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank on this issue. It highlights their concern that unsafe road transportation systems severely compromise world public health and development. It believes that the extent of road traffic injuries is unacceptable and that most can be avoided.

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Limited speed can improve road traffic safety and reduce the number of road traffic injuries due to traffic collisions. The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed speed control as one of various interventions that may help reduce road victims in a global report on road traffic injury prevention reports. Water management system can be used to reduce the impact of road pollutants. The way of rain and thawing often absorbs gasoline, oil, heavy metals, garbage and other pollutants, causing water pollution. Path flow is the main source of nickel, copper, zinc, cadmium, lead and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), combustion byproducts of gasoline and other fossil fuels.

The World Report on Traffic Accident Prevention is the first major report announced jointly by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank on this issue. It highlights their concern that unsafe road transportation systems severely compromise world public health and development. It believes that the extent of road traffic injuries is unacceptable and that most can be avoided.

Applying the latest data on the incidence of drunk driving accidents in developing countries to estimating the total cost of road traffic accidents in these countries (as described in the World Road Traffic Injury Prevention Report) is a reliable estimate Can be established. For example, in South Africa, alcohol is estimated to be a factor of 31% of nonfatal collisions. Applying this figure to the estimated $ 46.4 million in a South African traffic accident in the World Health Organization's report would result in a total medical system cost of about $ 14 million in drinking and driving accidents.

Traffic accidents are one of the world's largest public health and injury prevention issues. Because the victims are very healthy before the crash, the problem is even more serious. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 1 million people die each year from the world road. According to the WHO report of 2004, traffic accidents occur every year on roads all over the world, causing about 2 million deaths among children aged 10 to 19, injured 50 million people, and the main causes of death It is occurring. The report also noted that the problems in developing countries are the most serious and that simple precautionary measures could halve the number of deaths.