Understanding of the traffic morbidity and mortality issue
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Ref.: Par. 3.
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Ref.: PP3
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Annual estimated costs of accidents mentioned:
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Ref.: Par. 5.
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Ref.: PP6.
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Causes and Responsibilities
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Refs.: Par. 7; Enc. 2.
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Refs.: PP13, PP15.
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Risk
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Word mentioned once.
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Presents the main risk / protection factors: speed; drinking and driving, seat belt, children restraint systems; helmets.
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Old vehicles without maintenance or safety devices; infrastructures that do not protect pedestrians; lack of or insufficient supervision and attention to trauma.
Ref.: Par. 7.
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Refs.: PP22, PP23, OP3, OP4, OP9.
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Vulnerable road users
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Refs.: Par. 4, 7; Enc. 4.
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Vulnerability is physical and socioeconomic.
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Women added to child and the elderly in public transport.
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States urged to promote, adapt and implement road safety policies to protect vulnerable population.
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Mentions UN legal instruments for the theme.
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Specific mention to motorcyclists in developing countries.
Refs.: PP18, OP16, OP18, OP19.
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Equity
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Refs: PP18, PP19, OP11, OP17.
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Inclusion
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Recommends the implementation of infrastructure for all, particularly for vulnerable people (mentions the elderly, children, pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists and people with disability).
Refs.: Enc 4.
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Claims access for people with disabilities and other users with reduced mobility to the physical environment of roads, road traffic environment and transport in urban and rural areas.
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Recurring reference to “all road users.”
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Reference to the condition of those outside the vehicle
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Reference to the participation of employers and workers in public policies to reduce work-related road traffic accidents
Refs.: PP18; OP13; OP14; OP22.
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Training, skills Development and Education
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Refs.: Par 14; Enc11
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Develop / strengthen skills in international cooperation; in post-accident care, encouraging government / agencies to qualify staff
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Share best practices, lessons learned, knowledge transfer.
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Addressing the risk factors should be through awareness, advocacy, campaigns, social marketing, educational and training programs.
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Educational and training programs should be comprehensive, inclusive and evidence-based
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Continuing education context, with periodic testing to encourage responsible behavior of all road users, in order to create a peaceful circulation and social environment, as well as raising awareness on risk factors.
Refs.: PP23, PP30, OP19, OP23, OP24, OP25, OP27.
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Goals, indicators and monitoring
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Ref.: Enc.3.
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Invites the WHO to strengthen the standardization of definitions, indicators and reporting and recording practices.
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Encourages the WHO, employees and stakeholders concerned to facilitate the development of national, regional and global goals and definition / use of indicators for road traffic-related ODS.
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Need for countries to establish and / or strengthen monitoring of serious road traffic injuries.
Refs.: PP10, OP7, OP29.
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Health and Traffic
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Road traffic injuries referred to as major public health problem.
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Health is part of a crosscutting issue.
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Mention to timely access to emergency care.
Refs.: Par. 3, 19; Enc. 11.
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Refers to the reduction of road traffic deaths / injuries and improved health results.
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Refers to the role of health and universal coverage systems.
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Mentions prehospital, hospital, posthospital comprehensive care and reintegration of road traffic accidents victims;
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Mentions the positive impacts on public health resulting from Investments in road safety.
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Correlates protection and promotion, safety of pedestrians and cyclists mobility with the broad improvement of health, in particular, non-communicable diseases and injuries.
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Refers health at work on road safety issues, with particular attention to professional drivers.
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Refers to outpatient and hospital guidelines, appropriate legislation and qualification of access to comprehensive health care.
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Highlights paragraph for timely rehabilitation and social reintegration, including world of work and providing Support to victims / families.
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Claims means of environmentally sound transport, especially public and non-motorized transport for public health.
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Healthy lifestyle referenced in the emphasis on its interrelationship with road safety.
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Health services directly related to improving the quality of systematic and consolidated data collection.
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Invites the WHO to strengthen the standardization of definitions, indicators and reporting and recording practices, including on road traffic-related deaths, injuries and risk factors, in order to produce comparable information.
Refs.: PP4; PP25 OP7; OP6; OP11 OP22 OP23, OP25, OP26.
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