The costs of road injuries in Latin America 2013
Road traffic injuries are a leading cause of death and disability in Latin America. Nevertheless, road safety continues to rank low in national development priorities in the region. Estimates of the economic costs imposed by road traffic crashes on society can provide policy planners with an important indicator for allocating appropriate investments to road safety. Therefore, IDB conducted a review of methods and best practices reported in the health economics literature for assessing the economic burden of illness and injury.
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| Format: | Technical Notes biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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Inter-American Development Bank
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| Subjects: | Road and Highway, Disease, Road Traffic Injury, Road Traffic Incident, Road Traffic Crash, Road Safety, Fatal Road Injury, R4 - Transportation Economics, R5 - Regional Government Analysis, K1014;RG-, T1986, |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0009144 https://publications.iadb.org/en/costs-road-injuries-latin-america-2013 |
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