The Global Burden of Road Injury: Its Relevance to the Emergency Physician

Table 1

Ways for EM practitioners to get involved in global road safety.

Data collection. Initiate or assist with improved injury surveillance
Advocacy. Working to persuade decision-makers to address injuries as a major issue and of the importance of adopting improved approaches to road traffic safety
Programming. Designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating appropriate interventions
Capacity building. Promoting capacity of health care systems to recognize and care for and provide rehabilitation to victims of road traffic injuries
Knowledge transfer. Adapt successful initiatives from the developed world to low resource settings
Partnering. Promote global collaboration by forming partnerships between academic institutions and foreign governments, health centers, or NGOs
Education. Incorporate lessons on road traffic crashes into medical school and residency curricula; educate healthcare providers and patients of safe behaviors