Global Road Safety: Monitoring Risks and Evaluating Programs

This report by the Overseas Development Institute and World Resources Institute studies political challenges to road safety reform in low- and middle-income countries. Barriers identified include that road safety is not a political priority; that it is perceived as an issue of personal responsibility; that government bodies fail to collaborate; and that there is a lack of good data. The authors emphasize that road safety should focus as much on building the political will for…

This web portal, hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO), provides current information and country-specific data about road traffic injuries. More than 3,400 people die on the world's roads every day and tens of millions of people are injured or disabled every year. Children, pedestrians, cyclists and older people are among the most vulnerable of road users. WHO works with partners, both governmental and nongovernmental, around the world to raise the profile of the preventability…

This article in The Lancet Global Health reviews evidence on effective interventions for five types of unintentional injury and estimates the potential number of lives saved by such interventions among the poorest globally. The five causes of unintentional injury in focus included road traffic crashes, falls, drowning, burns, and poisoning. Through the Disease Control Priorities third edition, PubMed, and the Cochrane database, the authors identified 513 papers on interventions, 47 of which were eligible for…