Defining a common set of indicators to monitor road accidents in the European Union.

ABSTRACT:

Background

currently road accidents are mostly monitored through mortality and injury rates. This paper reports the methodology and the results of a project set forth by the European Union (EU) and coordinated by the WHO aimed at identifying and evaluating a core set of indicators to monitor the causal chain of road accident health effects. The project is part of the ECOEHIS (Development of Environment and Health Indicators for European Union Countries).

Methods

a group of experts (WG), identified 14 indicators after a review of the information collected at the EU level, each of them representing a specific aspect of the DPSEEA (Driving, Pressure, State, Exposure, Effect, Action) model applied and adapted to the road accidents. Each indicator was scored according to a list o

SUBMITTER: Farchi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1539004 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature