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Safety to Traffic
This is the 2007 draft on traffic safety. You will get the newest version here.
In traffic everybody should be safe, but to date many people are harmed by accidents – especially in road traffic.
Affected people and foundations of life: Road traffic accidents lead to injuries and deaths. The global economic costs of road crashes have been estimated to be 518 billion annually ( 2003, 96).
Deaths: 1.19 million people annually die in road traffic (WHO 2004, 124).
Loss of healthy life-years: 38.7 million healthy life-years (, attributable to road traffic accidents; WHO 2004, 130).
Targets/goals: no international target.
Trend: ? no trend data available.
Measures: safe road design, traffic management, seat belts, helmets, day-time running lights, speed limits, and restrictions on drinking and driving.
Annotations
For numeric names the short scale is used:
1 billion = one thousand million = 109 = 1 000 000 000
DALYs: Disability-adjusted life years.
One DALY represents the loss of one year of equivalent full health. DALYs are the sum of the years of life lost due to premature mortality (YLL) in the population and the years lost due to disability (YLD) for incident cases of the health condition. (WHO 2004, 95f.)
Sources
- WHO 2003 – World Health Organization: World Health Report 2003; Shaping the Future.
- WHO 2004 – World Health Organization: WHO Report 2004.
Draft (2007)
Photo credit: © WHO/P. Virot
