title: [Accidents and acts of violence in Brazil: IV--Report of an experiment related to traffic accident prevention: a model used by the Pan American Health Organization].
abstract: The report of a program related to the prevention of traffic accidents in Bogotá, Columbia, in 1983, is presented. The methodology applied showed that ostensive and preventive policing produced immediate results and its adoption was relatively simple: the number of accidents declined from 414 to 48 within on year of the launching of the Program.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Cirurgia, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil.
authors.forename: F B
authors.initials: FB
authors.lastname: Leitão
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003105:Colombia; D006801:Humans; D010175:Pan American Health Organization; D016730:Program Development
vernacular_title: Relato de experiência quanto à prevenção de acidentes de trânsito: um modelo usado pela Organização Panamericana de Saúde.