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...

BACKGROUND It has been suggested that year-round daylight saving would reduce road traffic injuries. METHODS and results Using 15 years of police data from north-east England, we estimate that 6.9 (95 per cent CI 1.5-12.6) fewer serious or fatal road traffic injuries to child pedestrians would have occurred in this area over this period had year-round daylight saving operated (equivalent to 0...

BACKGROUND The risk of injury is one of the major barriers to engaging in cycling. We investigated exposure-based rates and profiles of traffic injuries sustained by pedal cyclists that resulted in death or hospital inpatient treatment in New Zealand, one of the most car dependent countries. METHODS Pedal cyclist traffic injuries were identified from the Mortality Collection and the National ...

Introduction. Road traffic injuries are a major public health problem, ranking 8th in the leading causes of death and forecasted to rank 5th by 2030 worldwide. Children, pedestrians, cyclists elderly remain among those most at risk road injuries.
 Material methods. A specialized literature search was conducted within main international databases, including: PubMed/MEDLINE, Google Scholar, ...

background and aim: injuries from traffic accidents are a major public health problem, and the third leading cause of mortality in people aged 1 to 40 years. each year 31.8 persons per hundred thousands of iranians are killed in car accidents. neighboring of north khorasan province with razavi khorasan, a province with a lot of pilgrims caused a large number of passengers travel via north khora...

Background and aims: In Iran, according to the available data on health statistics, injuries are the as the common cause of death in different age groups after chronic heart diseases. The aim of this study was to present detailed information on eight common injuries. Methods: This study is an analysis on existing data (secondary study on recorded data) in...