Getting To Zero Alcohol Impaired Driving Fatalities

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Accelerating Progress to Reduce Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309468268

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Getting to Zero Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Accelerating Progress to Reduce Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities Pdf

Alcohol-impaired driving is an important health and social issue as it remains a major risk to Americans' health today, surpassing deaths per year of certain cancers, HIV/AIDS, and drownings, among others, and contributing to long-term disabilities from head and spinal injuries. Progress has been made over the past decades towards reducing these trends, but that progress has been incremental and has stagnated more recently. Getting to Zero Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities examines which interventions (programs, systems, and policies) are most promising to prevent injuries and death from alcohol-impaired driving, the barriers to action and approaches to overcome them, and which interventions need to be changed or adopted. This report makes broad-reaching recommendations that will serve as a blueprint for the nation to accelerate the progress in reducing alcohol-impaired driving fatalities.

Author : Institute of Medicine,National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Developing a Strategy to Reduce and Prevent Underage Drinking
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 761 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309089357

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Reducing Underage Drinking by Institute of Medicine,National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Developing a Strategy to Reduce and Prevent Underage Drinking Pdf

Alcohol use by young people is extremely dangerous - both to themselves and society at large. Underage alcohol use is associated with traffic fatalities, violence, unsafe sex, suicide, educational failure, and other problem behaviors that diminish the prospects of future success, as well as health risks â€" and the earlier teens start drinking, the greater the danger. Despite these serious concerns, the media continues to make drinking look attractive to youth, and it remains possible and even easy for teenagers to get access to alcohol. Why is this dangerous behavior so pervasive? What can be done to prevent it? What will work and who is responsible for making sure it happens? Reducing Underage Drinking addresses these questions and proposes a new way to combat underage alcohol use. It explores the ways in which may different individuals and groups contribute to the problem and how they can be enlisted to prevent it. Reducing Underage Drinking will serve as both a game plan and a call to arms for anyone with an investment in youth health and safety.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Automobiles
ISBN : 9780309085939

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Buckling Up by Anonim Pdf

Increasing seat belt use is one of the most effective and least costly ways of reducing the lives lost and injuries incurred on the nation's highways each year, yet about one in four drivers and front-seat passengers continues to ride unbuckled. The Transportation Research Board, in response to a congressional request for a study to examine the potential of in-vehicle technologies to increase belt use, formed a panel of 12 experts having expertise in the areas of automotive engineering, design, and regulation; traffic safety and injury prevention; human factors; survey research methods; economics; and technology education and consumer interest. This panel, named the Committee for the Safety Belt Technology Study, examined the potential benefits of technologies designed to increase belt use, determined how drivers view the acceptability of the technologies, and considered whether legislative or regulatory actions are necessary to enable their installation on passenger vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the study sponsor, funded and conducted interviews and focus groups of samples of different belt user groups to learn more about the potential effectiveness and acceptability of technologies ranging from seat belt reminder systems to more aggressive interlock systems, and provided the information collected to the study committee. The committee also supplemented its expertise by holding its second meeting in Dearborn, Michigan, where it met in proprietary sessions with several of the major automobile manufacturers, a key supplier, and a small business inventor of a shifter interlock system to learn of planned new seat belt use technologies as well as about company data concerning their effectiveness and acceptability. The committee's findings and recommendations are presented in this five-chapter report.

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Assembly of Behavioral and Social Sciences,Committee on Substance Abuse and Habitual Behavior,Panel on Alternative Policies Affecting the Prevention of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1981-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309031493

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Alcohol and Public Policy by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Assembly of Behavioral and Social Sciences,Committee on Substance Abuse and Habitual Behavior,Panel on Alternative Policies Affecting the Prevention of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Pdf

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789241547840

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Alcohol and Injuries by World Health Organization Pdf

Alcohol-attributable injuries are of a growing concern to the public health community, with alcohol-related injuries such as road traffic accidents, burns, poisonings, falls and drownings making up more than a third of the disease burden attributable to alcohol consumption. This publication synthesizes results of a number of hospital emergency department studies conducted in different cultural and health care settings, including the WHO Collaborative Study on Alcohol and Injuries. It provides an introduction to the epidemiology of alcohol-related injuries and refers to methodological issues of emergency department studies. It addresses public policy implications and equips the reader with practical information on interventions that can be implemented in emergency departments, such as screening and brief interventions for hazardous and harmful drinking. This book has been compiled by an international group of editors with extensive experience in the area of alcohol and injuries.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Accelerating Progress to Reduce Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309468299

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Getting to Zero Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Accelerating Progress to Reduce Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities Pdf

Alcohol-impaired driving is an important health and social issue as it remains a major risk to Americans' health today, surpassing deaths per year of certain cancers, HIV/AIDS, and drownings, among others, and contributing to long-term disabilities from head and spinal injuries. Progress has been made over the past decades towards reducing these trends, but that progress has been incremental and has stagnated more recently. Getting to Zero Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities examines which interventions (programs, systems, and policies) are most promising to prevent injuries and death from alcohol-impaired driving, the barriers to action and approaches to overcome them, and which interventions need to be changed or adopted. This report makes broad-reaching recommendations that will serve as a blueprint for the nation to accelerate the progress in reducing alcohol-impaired driving fatalities.

Author : Scott MacDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Cannabis
ISBN : 0359024130

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Cannabis Crashes by Scott MacDonald Pdf

This book is intended for students, policy makers, lawyers and experts in the field of substance use and crashes. I describe in simple terms epidemiological issues important for understanding whether conclusions from studies are justifiable and discover numerous myths and truths about cannabis and driving.

Author : Robert B. Voas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drinking and traffic accidents
ISBN : UOM:39015075121577

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The Relationship of Alcohol Safety Laws to Drinking Drivers in Fatal Crashes by Robert B. Voas Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : UCSD:31822028973782

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Alcoholism in the Workplace by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marjorie Peden
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781437904062

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World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention by Marjorie Peden Pdf

Every day thousands of people are killed and injured on our roads. Millions of people each year will spend long weeks in the hospital after severe crashes and many will never be able to live, work or play as they used to do. Current efforts to address road safety are minimal in comparison to this growing human suffering. This report presents a comprehensive overview of what is known about the magnitude, risk factors and impact of road traffic injuries, and about ways to prevent and lessen the impact of road crashes. Over 100 experts, from all continents and different sectors -- including transport, engineering, health, police, education and civil society -- have worked to produce the report. Charts and tables.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Drinking and traffic accidents
ISBN : NWU:35556023478688

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Wisconsin Alcohol Traffic Facts Book by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas F. Babor,Thomas Babor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199551149

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Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity by Thomas F. Babor,Thomas Babor Pdf

From a public health perspective, alcohol is a major contributor to morbidity and mortality, and impacts on many aspects of social life. This text describes advances in alcohol research with direct relevance to the development of effective policies at local, national and international level.

Author : National Academies (U.S.). Committee for the Study of Traffic Safety Lessons from Benchmark Nations
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780309160650

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Achieving Traffic Safety Goals in the United States by National Academies (U.S.). Committee for the Study of Traffic Safety Lessons from Benchmark Nations Pdf

The tool kit will vary among jurisdictions depending on basic legal constraints, community attitudes, road system and traffic characteristics, and resources. The Transportation Research Board (TRB) undertook a study to identify the sources of safety improvements in other countries. Researchers do not have a complete understanding of the underlying causes of long-term trends in crashes and fatalities. Differences among countries are in part attributable to factors other than government safety policies. To identify keys to success, the TRB study committee examined specific safety programs for which quantitative evaluations are available and relied on the observations of safety professionals with international experience. The committee's conclusions identify differences between U.S. and international practices that can account for some differences in outcomes. The committee recommendations, which are addressed to elected officials and to government safety administrators, identify actions needed in the United States to emulate the successes that other countries have achieved. The recommendations do not comprehensively address all aspects of traffic safety programs but rather address areas of practice that are highlighted by the international comparisons and for which credible evidence of effectiveness is available."--Pub. desc.

Author : Deborah A. P. Hersman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1457848686

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Reaching Zero by Deborah A. P. Hersman Pdf

On May 14, 2013, the 25th anniversary of our nation's deadliest drunk-driving crash, which killed 24 children and three adults in Carrollton, KY, the National Transportation Safety Board's (NTSB's) five-member board voted unanimously to issue bold recommendations to help the U.S. reach zero and eliminate alcohol-impaired driving. Bold steps are needed: On average, every hour, one person dies in a crash involving a drunk driver and 20 more people are injured, including three with debilitating injuries. That adds up quickly to yearly totals of nearly 10,000 deaths, 27,000 lives forever altered and another 146,000 injured. This safety report and recommendations culminate a year-long effort by the NTSB to thoroughly examine this problem and develop a set of targeted interventions. Figures. This is a print on demand report.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drinking and traffic accidents
ISBN : NWU:35556023517964

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Traffic Safety Facts by Anonim Pdf