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July 13, 2006
EU GROUP DEVELOPING CRASH MONITORING CRITERIA
Researcher members of the European Road Accident Working Group, a project of the EU and WHO, has published a paper defining and proposing a common set of indicators to monitor road accidents in the European Union. Currently, they state, road accidents are mostly monitored through mortality and injury rates. They identified fourteen 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.
They found eleven of the indicators to be relevant and compatible with the criteria of selection, and proposed them for a feasibility study. "Mortality, injury, road accident rate, age of vehicle fleet, and distance traveled are the indicators recommended for immediate implementation. After overcoming the limitations that emerged (absence of a common definition of death by road accident and injury severity, underestimation of injuries, differences in information quality) this core set of indicators will allow Member States to carry out effective internal/external comparisons over time." The paper citation is BMC Public Health 2006, 6:183 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-6-183.
Posted by MVHAP at July 13, 2006 03:17 PM