Our results suggest that monitoring and prevention of road construction within protected areas, using logging concessions as buffers of protected areas and geographical prioritization of control measures in illegal logging hotspots would be more effective for conservation than reliance on protected areas alone, especially under food price increasing scenarios.
Increasing resources for prevention of road traffic injuries at the expense of other forms of injury risks will increase this disparity further.
Prevention of road accidents and injuries needs to be at the forefront of the agenda.
- Train community communicators to visit households and give advice on injury prevention including road traffic injuries.
Policymakers and activists should ask themselves, should our goal be to establish a fund for the prevention of road accidents and injuries or a general health promotion fund?
35, 36 In Sweden, values equivalent to around US$100,000 (about €70,000) have been indicated on the basis of willingness to pay for prevention of road deaths.
At the national level, UNICEF together with the Ministry of Health, the Committee for Population, Family and Children, and the National Traffic Safety Committee are raising awareness on injury prevention and road safety.
If planners decide to advocate for establishing a general health promotion fund that will also fund prevention of road accidents, research on NCDs should be gathered and presented as a comprehensive package with accident prevention.
This paper presents characteristics, user type pattern, and cause of 1,061 deaths attributable to RTIs, which were ascertained from the surveillance sites over this two-year period, and discusses policy implications for the prevention of road accident mortality in Vietnam.
In this article, we present ideas about how LMICs can create sustainable funding for the prevention of road accidents and injuries based on the experience of building up tobacco control.
