Decade of Action for Road Safety
Collection published: 28 January 2013
As described in the 2004 World Health Organization/World Bank World report on road traffic injury prevention, road traffic injuries are a worldwide public health problem and a growing cause of death and injury around the world. Each year road crashes kill more than 1.2 million people, and as many as 50 million are injured or disabled as a result. Road traffic crashes are the leading cause of death for children and young people aged 5–29 years, and according to projections from WHO, trauma will remain a global public health concern for the next twenty years.
Image copyright: World Health Organization
From 2011-2020, the UN/WHO Decade of Action for Road Safety aims to stop and possibly reverse the predicted trend of global road deaths by 2020, thus markedly reducing the global burden of disease caused by road traffic disasters.
Accompanying the Decade of Action for Road Safety, this article collection in Journal of Trauma Management and Outcomes aims to be of interest to health professionals, stakeholders related to road safety, and the public.
This series will cover key topics like pre-clinical care, injury prevention, surgical and interventional care, public health issues, within scope for the Decade of Road Safety, and aims to be a resource highlighting the substantial progress in epidemiologic and health-economic knowledge, methods of prevention, and effective care of road traffic injuries on a geopolitical level.
|
|
|
Welcome to a decade of action that can make a change!
Uli Schmucker, Axel Ekkernkamp, Dirk Stengel Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes 2013, 7:1 (28 January 2013)
Abstract | Full text | PDF
| PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central
|
|
|
|
Injury characteristics and outcome of road traffic crash victims at Bugando Medical Centre in Northwestern Tanzania
Phillipo L Chalya, Joseph B Mabula, Ramesh M Dass, Nkinda Mbelenge, Isdori H Ngayomela, Alphonce B Chandika, Japhet M Gilyoma Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes 2012, 6:1 (9 February 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF
| PubMed
|
|
|
|
Trauma center accessibility for road traffic injuries in Hanoi, Vietnam
Takashi Nagata, Ayako Takamori, Yoshinari Kimura, Akio Kimura, Makoto Hashizume, Shinji Nakahara Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes 2011, 5:11 (30 September 2011)
Abstract | Full text | PDF
| PubMed
|
|
|
|
Etiological spectrum, injury characteristics and treatment outcome of maxillofacial injuries in a Tanzanian teaching hospital
Phillipo L Chalya, Mabula Mchembe, Joseph B Mabula, Emanuel S Kanumba, Japhet M Gilyoma Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes 2011, 5:7 (2 June 2011)
Abstract | Full text | PDF
| PubMed
|
|
|
|
Resource utilization and outcomes of intoxicated drivers
Robert A Cherry, Pamela A Nichols, Theresa M Snavely, Lindsay J Camera, David T Mauger Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes 2010, 4:9 (5 August 2010)
Abstract | Full text | PDF
| PubMed
|
Editor’s summary
Incidents involving intoxicated drivers may result in better health outcomes than sober drivers, at least in terms of surgical complications and hospital stay length; corresponding editorial comment discusses context of study.
|
|
|
|
Real-world car-to-pedestrian-crash data from an urban centre
Uli Schmucker, Melissa Beirau, Matthias Frank, Dirk Stengel, Gerrit Matthes, Axel Ekkernkamp, Julia Seifert Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes 2010, 4:2 (16 February 2010)
Abstract | Full text | PDF
| PubMed
|
|
|
|
A new approach and first steps to strengthen trauma management and road safety in North Vietnam
Uli Schmucker, Caspar Ottersbach, Matthias Frank, Luong Xuan Hien, Lajos Bogar, Axel Ekkernkamp, Dirk Stengel, Gerrit Matthes Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes 2008, 2:10 (28 October 2008)
Abstract | Full text | PDF
| PubMed
|
|
|
|
The profile of head injuries and traumatic brain injury deaths in Kashmir
GH Yattoo, Amin Tabish Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes 2008, 2:5 (21 June 2008)
Abstract | Full text | PDF
| PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central
|
|
|
|
A geographic information system to study trauma epidemiology in India
Vaibhav Bagaria, Saurabh Bagaria Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes 2007, 1:3 (26 November 2007)
Abstract | Full text | PDF
| PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central
|
