Evaluating the Impact of Criminalizing Drunk Driving on Road-Traffic Injuries in Guangzhou, China: A Time-Series Study

Zhao, Aizhi; Chen, Renjie; Qi, Yongqing; Chen, Ailan; Chen, Xinyu; Liang, Zijing; Ye, Jianjun; Liang, Qing; Guo, Duanqiang; Li, Wanglin; Kan, Haidong

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“…69 Drunk driving is another example. While strict criminalization of drunk driving in China has been effective in some settings (appendix), drunk driving behavior persists—especially among men 70, 71 —indicating that regulation should be supplemented by increasing the number of traffic police officers such that routine enforcement, and awareness of enforcement, is improved; 72 conducting police enforcement at night and in low-visibility areas specifically; 73 and educating the public about the dangers of drunk driving. 72 …”

Section: Future Of Healthy Transportation In Chinamentioning

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Transport and public health in China: the road to a healthy future

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Transportation-related risk factors are a major source of morbidity and mortality in China, where expansion of road networks and surges in personal vehicle ownership are having profound effects on public health. Road traffic injuries and fatalities have increased alongside motorized transport in China, and accident injury risk is aggravated by inadequate emergency response systems and trauma care. National air quality standards and emission control technologies are having a positive effect, yet persistent air pollution is increasingly attributable to a growing and outdated vehicle fleet, and famously congested roads. Urban design favors motorized transport, and physical activity and its associated health benefits are hindered by poor urban infrastructure. Transport emissions of greenhouse gases contribute substantially to regional and global climate change, which compound public health risks from multiple factors. Despite these complex challenges, technological advances and innovations in planning and policy stand to make China a leader in sustainable, healthy transportation.

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“…We intend to further strengthen the safety education of road traffic participants and improve the medical treatment system, which make use of the existing medical network, expand the scope of first aid and enrich first aid medical personnel to improve the delivery mechanism, which aim to providing scientific evidences for the strategic policies and suggestions to restrain injury deaths for preventing of RTCs and death incidences of RTIs. As long as the factors that affect RTCs are deeply learned for thorough research, and law of RTCs for the prevention of RTCs and RTIs with a far-reaching impact on health and economy [12] [13] [14], which are the key to reduce the death rate of RTCs and the economic burden of diseases.…”

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Analysis of Characteristics of Road Traffic Accident Casualties in Guilin

Qin¹,

Liu²,

Kong³

2018

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Objectives: To explore the characteristics of road traffic accident casualties and time distribution characteristics of road traffic crashes in Guilin. Methods: We analyzed the data of road traffic crashes in 2007-2014 of Guilin to explore the casualty's features of road traffic injuries and time distribution characteristics of road traffic crashes. Results: A total of 3162 road traffic accident casualties were studied. The majority of the study subjects were males (63.23%) who suffered almost twice as females. The casualties' ages ranged from 5 to 78 years with the mean age 33.65 ± 16.76 years. The mortality rate of RTCs was significantly higher in males than in females (61.39 versus 38.61, P < 0.05). RTIs disproportionately affected adult people, with the majority of those fatalities occurred among people aged 15-59 years. The mortality rates of RTCs varied greatly by educational status, more than one-third occurred in people of secondary school. Approximately 40.25% of fatalities of road traffic crashes occurred in daily laborer showed that mortality rate was significantly higher than other occupations (P < 0.05). The distribution of season from road traffic deaths involved Spring (24.72%), Summer (15.56%), Autumn (30.56%), and Winter (29.17%). The proportion of road traffic deaths varied from the lowest 6.02% in 9:00-12:00 to the highest 16.78% in 0:00-3:0; midnight (0:00-3:00) shows a significantly higher proportion of reported road traffic deaths (P < 0.05). The upper limbs and lower limbs were the most common body region injured accounting for 16.57% and 17.84% of cases respectively; the highest fatality rate of head was 20.77% and followed by abdomen of 15.75%. Conclusions: This study showed diverse morbidity and mortality characteristics among the casualties and varied the road traffic accident rate and fatality rate from season and time. Corresponding measures to reduce the occurrence of traffic injuries should be formulated according to different population and time.

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“…Secondly, there is a growing body of literature, mainly pilot interventions in low-and middle-income countries, which show substantial effects of these programs. These include studies for India [35,43], Bangladesh [36], Uganda [37], Rwanda [38], Vietnam [39], China [40,41], Iran [42], Chile [44] and Brazil [45]. Staton et al [46] undertake a meta-analysis of 18 articles from 11 lower income countries, finding substantial reduction in accidents and/or injuries in most cases, but comment on the limitations of many studies and the critical role of enforcement.…”

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Reduced Road Traffic Injuries for Young People: A Preliminary Investment Analysis

Symons

Howard²,

Sweeny

et al. 2019

Journal of Adolescent Health

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Deaths and serious injuries from road accidents remain a serious issue in developing countries, including for adolescents, for whom they are the largest cause of death. This paper provides an assessment of interventions to reduce these deaths and injuries for adolescents in 75 developing countries. Methods We draw on new data on deaths and injuries by age, gender and accident type for the 75 countries, and on the road safety experience of developed and, more recently, of developing countries. Critical tasks are to identify key interventions in road safety, and to estimate their impact and cost. We incorporate these impact and cost estimates in a modelling framework to calculate the reduction in deaths and serious injuries achieved out to 2030, relative to the base case. Finally, established methods are used to value the economic and social benefits arising from these reductions, and hence to calculate benefitcost ratios. Results For the unchanged policy case, we estimate that there will be about 3 million deaths and 7.4 million serious injuries from road accidents for persons aged 10-24 years in the 75 countries to 2030. The preferred interventions avert one million of these deaths and 3 million serious injuries, at a cost of $6.5 billion per annum over 2016-30, or $1.2 per capita across the total population of these countries. After valuing the benefits of the deaths and serious injuries averted, we find a benefit/cost ratio of 7.6 for 2016-30, but of 9.9 if the interventions continue to 2050. Implications and Contribution Death and injury rates from road accidents have fallen sharply in developed countries in recent years. In the 75 developing countries studied, death rates are 5-6 times higher than in the developed countries and rose by 12% between 2000 and 2016. Road accidents are the leading cause of death for adolescents in developing countries. This study suggests that not only are the interventions available to address this problem, but they are available at a reasonable cost and would be high return investments, with benefits 7-10 times costs.

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Evaluating the Impact of Criminalizing Drunk Driving on Road-Traffic Injuries in Guangzhou, China: A Time-Series Study

Cited by 21 publications

References 28 publications

Transport and public health in China: the road to a healthy future

Transport and public health in China: the road to a healthy future

Analysis of Characteristics of Road Traffic Accident Casualties in Guilin

Reduced Road Traffic Injuries for Young People: A Preliminary Investment Analysis

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