Abstract

RODRIGUEZ HERNANDEZ, Jorge Martín  and  URREGO, Diana Carolina. Population measures to improve road safety: Beyond individual responsibility. Rev. Univ. Ind. Santander. Salud [online]. 2023, vol.55, e74.  Epub Dec 04, 2023. ISSN 0121-0807.  https://doi.org/10.18273/saluduis.55.e:23033.

Injuries caused by traffic (ICT) are among the main causes of mortality and disability worldwide, reflected in the fact that they occupy the first ten causes of disability adjusted life years with economic and social cost impacts for the societies that suffer from them. In 2004, the World Health Organization (WHO) released the first Prevention Report about ICT. Nevertheless, in subsequent years this situation has not improved, motivating the United Nations to launch the Decade of Action for Road Safety (2011-2020), where governments were invited to design and implement actions to reduce the burden associated with this problem: designing and improving of roads, increasing timely post-crash care, speed control, administrative control measures, designing and improving vehicle safety standards, among others. Population-based measures have been shown to be more powerful than measures that induce individual behavior changes.

Keywords : Traffic Collision; Security measures; Security; Prevention and control; Injuries; Colombia.

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