Journal of Local and Global Health Science - Proceedings of the 24th World International Traffic Medicine Association Congress, Qatar 2015, November 2015

Worldwide, the injuries caused in traffic accidents constitute a public health problem of great importance. Its strong impact generates a high percentage of deaths, hospital admissions with high costs, material losses, pension costs, and of course too much suffering for the victims and their families. There is need for effective public policy, since traffic accidents in many cases are not actually “accidents” but pretty much predictable occurrences, Read More

Introduction/Problem statement In 2007, road safety was assessed as one of the more serious safety risks in Ras Laffan Industrial City (RLIC). It accounted for 1,540 road traffic crashes, one fatality, several serious injuries and a number of property damages during the year. As a result a committee was formed which included all stakeholders in the Industrial City to set achievable and sustainable goals to reduce the road safety Read More

The issue of road traffic safety in mainland China is particularly serious. The total number of vehicles is growing rapidly (e.g. 60 million in 2000 vs. 240 million in 2012); meanwhile the number of road traffic accidents and associated casualties still remains high and shows no signs of meaningful decline. It is reported road traffic causalities in China ranks highest in the world, with an annual death toll exceeding 100,000 and an average daily deat Read More

تشكّل الحوادث المروية بدرجة كبيرة قلقًا كبيرًا، وهاجسًا مؤرقًا ومؤلمًا لأفراد المجتمع كافة..؛ وأضحت من أهم المشكلات التي تستنزف الموارد الحيوية، والمادية والطاقات البشرية خاصة الشابة منها، فضلاً عمّا تكبّده من مشكلات اجتماعية ونفسية وخسائر مادية ضخمة؛ ما يدعونا جميعًا إلى إيجاد الحلول والاقتراحات ووضعها حيز التنفيذ للحد منها؛ وتقدير معالجة أسبابها والتخفيف من وطأة آثارها السلبية. والواقع يذكّرنا دومًا، أنه بالرغم من تنظيم، العديد منحملات التوعية؛ وإقامة المزيد من الفعاليات التي قدّمت لمجتمعاتنا العربية، على مدار ال Read More

Provoking the loss of a productive workforce and the waste of economic resources, through death or disability, the social and economic ramifications of road accidents attract the attention of researchers and stakeholders alike. Accidents have detrimental social, health and psychological consequences for families and cause them financial burdens. One of the means of protection against road accidents lies in taking preventive safety measures a Read More

Traffic safety is one of the most important means to protect human life as well as personal and public property from harm and to contribute to social and economic growth and development. Several factors have been linked to traffic safety, but the most prominent ones are: the driver, the vehicle and the road. This paper, however, focusses only on the driver as an essential factor that impacts others, and analyzes the driver’s behavior and Read More

People are the most important asset of any nation, and general safety is one of its most important requirements. Traffic safety, which is one of the components of the general safety of any modern nation, consists of four essential elements: the road network, the human factor, the vehicle and the traffic police and laws. In implementing the principles of the safety of modern roads and in devising plans for their projects, engineers, decisi Read More

Traffic accidents have conventionally been considered as the outcome of a dialectical interplay of three elements: the driver, the vehicle and the infrastructure. Everything that relates to the road, its maintenance and the traffic signs are constituents of the infrastructure. Therefore, all traffic accidents could be interpreted as a flaw in one or all of these elements. By developing new methods, the team I supervise has contributed si Read More

• It should be noted that traffic awareness started in Bahrain almost fifty years ago. In 1967, the General Directorate of Traffic launched an awareness campaign to inform drivers that on Friday 27 November 1967 the traffic system would change from left to right. Accordingly, some awareness support programs were launched to activate the traffic change from left to right. Many entities directly or indirectly involved in the traffic field particip Read More

Reviewing the progress made in UN's Decade of Action on Road Safety 2011-20, it is clear that much remains to be done. The problem of road safety is reaching pandemic proportions; there are 1.3 million traffic related deaths annually, 50 million are disabled because of injuries from road traffic accidents every year, people road accidents are the 8th leading cause of non-natural death, road accidents are the leading cause of death a Read More

To achieve significant improvements, there is a need for a systematic approach in Road Safety Management. The first step of such approach is to define the burden of road casualties in the country. Part of defining the burden is the monetary valuation of the prevention of a fatality accident. Such “values of statistical life” are derived in a number of countries, however, there is a large variation among these. Interestingly, a negative correlation Read More

Transportation of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORM) Contaminated Waste in QP is carried out in accordance with the Radiation Protection Laws and QP Radiation Protection Standard for NORM Management (QP-STD-S-055). The QP Standard stipulates requirements for ensuring protection of persons and environmental from NORM impact, which is in line with the requirements of the Ministry of Environment (MoE) Resolution No. 45/ Read More

The July 1938 issue of the American Journal of Psychology contained an insightful paper on car driving(1). Since that time an enormous technical literature devoted to driving and traffic safety has emerged, resulting in a solid edifice of detailed knowledge(2). Yet many of the most basic questions remain unanswered according to the strictest scientific reasoning. For example, it is widely assumed that we know how a driver’s crash risk is Read More

The losses caused by traffic accidents constitutes a large socio-economic problem for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and has led to an in-depth study of the driver, which is the major factor in the cause of traffic accidents in any region of the world. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's booming economy has resulted in the employment of large numbers of immigrants who work as professional drivers in Saudi Arabia, who come from different cultu Read More

- يتلخص البحث بان أي حادث مروري كبير، تكون نتيجته وفاة شخصين على الأقل ، يجب عمل بحث لأسباب الحادث من كل النواحي ،المرورية و الطبية و الهندسية و الأسباب التي أدت للوفاة ، و أي سبب أدى للحادث من ناحية المركبة أو السائق أو الطريق و يقوم رجل المرور و مهندس الطرق و الطبيب ، بعمل تقرير مفصل وميداني بالتنسيق فيما بينهما ، و تحضير التقرير بشكل مختصر يوفي بالغرض و مرفق بالصور و الفيديو، خلال فتر ة من حدوث الحادث لا تتعدى الأسبوعين ، و عرض هذا التقرير أمام كل المهتمين من إدارة المرور و هندسة الطرق و Read More