BMJ  2004;328:888-890 (10 April), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7444.888

Education and debate

Road safety advocacy

¹ London SW13 ONZ j_breen{at}btopenworld.com

Health professionals have an important role in implementing measures to reduce deaths and injuries on the roads

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As many as 50 million people each year may be injured in road traffic crashes globally—a total representing the combined populations of Beijing, Delhi, London, Paris, and New York.¹ Without increased safety effort to match the growing number of motor vehicles in low to middle income countries, road traffic injury is predicted be the third leading contributor to the global burden of disease and injury by 2020.² Heeding such a forecast, the World Health Organization this week placed road safety advocacy high on the agenda for public health professionals, alongside other key activities.¹ According to WHO, "hidden epidemics" such as road traffic deaths and injuries receive relatively little national or international attention.³ Without solid action now, the forecast looks bleak over the next decades for low income countries.⁴ Even in countries that have more active road safety programmes, too few evidence based measures are being implemented and too few are . . . [Full text of this article]

What is advocacy?

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Barriers to improved road safety

What health professionals have achieved

What individual health professionals can achieve

Future advocacy challenges

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