WHO Fact Sheets: Intentional and Unintentional Injury

This article from The Lancet Public Health analyzes mortality and disability-adjusted life years (DALY) due to transport and unintentional injuries for adolescents in 204 countries worldwide, using data from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2019. The paper aims to present trends in injury-related mortality and morbidity for adolescents, and analyzes data by sex, age group, and socioeconomic status. The report presents mortality data for adolescents aged 10 to 24 years from 1990 to…

This article in The Lancet discusses how China’s expanding road networks and wider personal vehicle ownership are shaping public health in the country. Although public sector and technological innovation is advancing very rapidly in China, road traffic injuries and fatalities have also increased—accounting for 80 percent of accidental deaths in the country. Insufficient emergency rescue and trauma response systems have exacerbated this transportation-related mortality. Beyond preventable road traffic injuries and fatalities, the rapid movement in…

This case study describes the Vision Zero Network, an initiative dedicated to saving lives by reducing fatalities and serious injuries on Canadian roads to zero. The case details the importance of social marketing in public health; it is a mechanism that draws on marketing concepts to elicit behavioral change in a target population. The case elucidates the challenges in evaluating an evidence-based social marketing campaign and all considerations that must be made for its implementation.…