TY - JOUR
T1 - Road safety in the political agenda
T2 - The impact on road traffic injuries
AU - Novoa, Ana M.
AU - Pérez, Katherine
AU - Santamariña-Rubio, Elena
AU - Marí-Dell'Olmo, Marc
AU - Cozar, Rogelio
AU - Ferrando, Josep
AU - Peiró, Rosana
AU - Tobías, Aurelio
AU - Zori, Pilar
AU - Borrell, Carme
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2011/3
Y1 - 2011/3
N2 - Background: This paper aims at assessing the effectiveness of the package of road safety measures implemented after road safety was included in the political agenda in the year 2004 on the number of road traffic-injured people in Spain. Methods: An evaluation study was performed using an interrupted time-series design. The study population was people injured in road traffic crashes in Spain between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2006. The road traffic crashes database of the General Directorate for Traffic was used. The dependent variable was the monthly number of people injured, stratified by sex, age, severity and type of road user. The explanatory variable (intervention) compared the post-intervention period (2004-6) with the pre-intervention period (2000-3). Quasi-Poisson regression models were adjusted, controlling for time trend and for seasonality. Results: Results show a reduction in the risk of being injured for both men (RR 0.91; 95% CI 0.87 to 0.95) and women (RR 0.89; 95% CI 0.85 to 0.94). Risk reductions were observed across all age groups and all road users, except for pedestrians. Conclusions: The present study suggests that prioritising road safety reduces the number of people injured in road traffic collisions.
AB - Background: This paper aims at assessing the effectiveness of the package of road safety measures implemented after road safety was included in the political agenda in the year 2004 on the number of road traffic-injured people in Spain. Methods: An evaluation study was performed using an interrupted time-series design. The study population was people injured in road traffic crashes in Spain between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2006. The road traffic crashes database of the General Directorate for Traffic was used. The dependent variable was the monthly number of people injured, stratified by sex, age, severity and type of road user. The explanatory variable (intervention) compared the post-intervention period (2004-6) with the pre-intervention period (2000-3). Quasi-Poisson regression models were adjusted, controlling for time trend and for seasonality. Results: Results show a reduction in the risk of being injured for both men (RR 0.91; 95% CI 0.87 to 0.95) and women (RR 0.89; 95% CI 0.85 to 0.94). Risk reductions were observed across all age groups and all road users, except for pedestrians. Conclusions: The present study suggests that prioritising road safety reduces the number of people injured in road traffic collisions.
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U2 - 10.1136/jech.2009.094029
DO - 10.1136/jech.2009.094029
M3 - Article
C2 - 19959650
AN - SCOPUS:79951598007
VL - 65
SP - 218
EP - 225
JO - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
JF - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
SN - 0143-005X
IS - 3
ER -