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Applying the five-pillar matrix to the decade of action for road safety in Qatar: identifying gaps and priorities
INTRODUCTION: Road traffic injuries (RTIs) are the leading cause of preventable death in Qatar; consequently, the country has participated in the Decade of Action for Road Safety (DoARS) coordinated by the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration (UNRSC). Its goal is to reduce the number of road tra...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6307580/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30623026 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tsaco-2018-000233 |
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author | Consunji, Rafael Mekkodathil, Ahammed Abeid, Aisha El-Menyar, Ayman Al-Thani, Hassan Sekayan, Tsoler Peralta, Ruben |
author_facet | Consunji, Rafael Mekkodathil, Ahammed Abeid, Aisha El-Menyar, Ayman Al-Thani, Hassan Sekayan, Tsoler Peralta, Ruben |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Road traffic injuries (RTIs) are the leading cause of preventable death in Qatar; consequently, the country has participated in the Decade of Action for Road Safety (DoARS) coordinated by the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration (UNRSC). Its goal is to reduce the number of road traffic deaths and injuries by 50% by 2020, by implementing road safety activities, in the areas of road safety management, safer roads, safer vehicles, safer road users and postcrash response, the five pillars. This study will evaluate the initiatives and programs implemented in Qatar, during the initial period of the DoARS. METHODS: A retrospective process evaluation of the compliance of national road safety activities in Qatar, with global indicators for the DoARS set by the UNRSC was conducted. A web-based online and electronic media search, in both official languages of Qatar: Arabic and English, for data and information on completed or ongoing road safety initiatives and activities implemented in Qatar, from January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2016, was supplemented by personal consultation with relevant stakeholders in the road safety field. RESULTS: There was complete compliance for Pillars 1 (Road Safety Management) and 2 (Safer Roads), whereas Pillars 4 (Safer Road Users) and 5 (Postcrash Response) met most of the DoARS indicators, and Pillar 3 (Safer Vehicles) complied with none. CONCLUSION: Qatar must continue to implement its present road safety activities within the Action Plan for the DoARS to achieve its goals by 2020. It must, however, implement more new efforts to require safer vehicles and make road users safer, especially those at the highest risk, that is, young drivers, occupants and workers. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level IV. |
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spelling | pubmed-63075802019-01-08 Applying the five-pillar matrix to the decade of action for road safety in Qatar: identifying gaps and priorities Consunji, Rafael Mekkodathil, Ahammed Abeid, Aisha El-Menyar, Ayman Al-Thani, Hassan Sekayan, Tsoler Peralta, Ruben Trauma Surg Acute Care Open 4th World Trauma Congress Article INTRODUCTION: Road traffic injuries (RTIs) are the leading cause of preventable death in Qatar; consequently, the country has participated in the Decade of Action for Road Safety (DoARS) coordinated by the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration (UNRSC). Its goal is to reduce the number of road traffic deaths and injuries by 50% by 2020, by implementing road safety activities, in the areas of road safety management, safer roads, safer vehicles, safer road users and postcrash response, the five pillars. This study will evaluate the initiatives and programs implemented in Qatar, during the initial period of the DoARS. METHODS: A retrospective process evaluation of the compliance of national road safety activities in Qatar, with global indicators for the DoARS set by the UNRSC was conducted. A web-based online and electronic media search, in both official languages of Qatar: Arabic and English, for data and information on completed or ongoing road safety initiatives and activities implemented in Qatar, from January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2016, was supplemented by personal consultation with relevant stakeholders in the road safety field. RESULTS: There was complete compliance for Pillars 1 (Road Safety Management) and 2 (Safer Roads), whereas Pillars 4 (Safer Road Users) and 5 (Postcrash Response) met most of the DoARS indicators, and Pillar 3 (Safer Vehicles) complied with none. CONCLUSION: Qatar must continue to implement its present road safety activities within the Action Plan for the DoARS to achieve its goals by 2020. It must, however, implement more new efforts to require safer vehicles and make road users safer, especially those at the highest risk, that is, young drivers, occupants and workers. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level IV. BMJ Publishing Group 2018-12-19 /pmc/articles/PMC6307580/ /pubmed/30623026 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tsaco-2018-000233 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2018. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 |
spellingShingle | 4th World Trauma Congress Article Consunji, Rafael Mekkodathil, Ahammed Abeid, Aisha El-Menyar, Ayman Al-Thani, Hassan Sekayan, Tsoler Peralta, Ruben Applying the five-pillar matrix to the decade of action for road safety in Qatar: identifying gaps and priorities |
title | Applying the five-pillar matrix to the decade of action for road safety in Qatar: identifying gaps and priorities |
title_full | Applying the five-pillar matrix to the decade of action for road safety in Qatar: identifying gaps and priorities |
title_fullStr | Applying the five-pillar matrix to the decade of action for road safety in Qatar: identifying gaps and priorities |
title_full_unstemmed | Applying the five-pillar matrix to the decade of action for road safety in Qatar: identifying gaps and priorities |
title_short | Applying the five-pillar matrix to the decade of action for road safety in Qatar: identifying gaps and priorities |
title_sort | applying the five-pillar matrix to the decade of action for road safety in qatar: identifying gaps and priorities |
topic | 4th World Trauma Congress Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6307580/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30623026 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tsaco-2018-000233 |
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