Road Accidents, Road Safety: The bad, the Good Omens to Public Health.

      Аннотация: Since several decades ago are measures, strategies, clues, etc in order to maintain safety of our roads or traffics. But with the advent and increase in population, motorization, industrialization and urbanization road accidents become predominant and among the leading causes of mortality, morbidity and property loss, consequently, eliciting responses and researches to curb that menace. Thus, this book entail to discuss the road safety measures (both old and emerging ones) the causes and types of road accidents, and ways to curtail the trend. Other issues that relates road accidents like substance abuse and youths, behavior change to road safety, Haddons matrix application in road accident prevention, risk factors of accidents etc were discussed. This book will be of benefit to policy makers, public health scholars and experts, students, sociologists and related experts.

Ключевые слова: distracted driving, drink driving, youth driving, haddons matrix, road safety issues in Africa, Road Accidents, road safety, behavior change techniques