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Winter road safety is no accident.
Every winter, hundreds of drivers and passengers die on slushy, snowy or icy Canadian roads — and this win ter is no exception. Adverse road conditions in cold weather contribute to about 12% of traffic fatalities and in juries, with substantial local variability.1 Although traffic fatal ities have decreased over time thanks to safety initiatives,1 Canadians seem to have become accustomed to ...
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This month WHO is taking a giant leap forward in global public health in the field of road traffic injuries, with two major events to promote action for saving lives and preventing morbidity. The first is World Health Day on 7 April 2004 with the theme “Road safety is no accident” (1). This simple message is designed to encourage governments, civil society and other stakeholders to recognize th...
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Yet without diligent efforts to maintain immunization programs in the United States and to strengthen them worldwide, vaccinepreventable diseases will remain a threat to children. As illustrations, consider the 2010 California outbreak of whooping cough where over 8,000 cases were reported to the state and where there were 10 infant deaths, or measles, which takes the lives of more than 100,000...
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Let me first consider the term “accident”. The Oxford English Dictionary notes that it comes from the Latin word “accidens” and the French verb “accidere” both meaning to fall towards. The Dictionary provides two basic descriptions of the word. The first is that it is an unfortunate incident that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally. The second description is that it is an event that happen...
متن کاملRelationships between road slipperiness, traffic accident risk and winter road maintenance activity
A method for deriving quantitative relationships between road slipperiness, traffic accident risk and winter road maintenance (WRM) activity is described. The method is also applied to data from an area in southern Sweden. If a specific type of road slipperiness represents a large accident risk despite high WRM activity it is important to increase public awareness during such periods. If the ty...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Medical Association Journal
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0820-3946,1488-2329
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.160100