Adverse health outcomes of road traffic injuries in Iran after rapid motorization.
Recent studies have made it clear that Iran has too many road traffic injuries (RTI). This paper explains the reasons for high traffic injury rates and points to solutions. It also provides detailed data on the burden of traffic injury in Iran in 2005. Traffic injury rates have rapidly risen out of control because for a variety of possible reasons such as increasing number of non-standard cars and motorcycles, low gas price, decreasing ratio of travels via public transportation than with private vehicles, and problems with safety design. Besides a high need for a system safety approach, Iran needs to deal with the problem of producing a high number of cars and motorcycles. Providing safe mobility for the people of Iran needs to be a top priority of the government.
Naghavi
Mohsen
M
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
Shahraz
Saeid
S
Bhalla
Kavi
K
Jafari
Nahid
N
Pourmalek
Farshad
F
Bartels
David
D
Puthenpurakal
Jerry Abraham
JA
Motlagh
Mohammad Esmail
ME
D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000639:trends*; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007492:Iran / Q000453:epidemiology; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology