![]() ![]() Įffective measures are needed to prevent RTCs and thus RTIs. ![]() The high burden of RTCs may be due to increasing of urbanization, a large land area, long distances between cities and its location at the crossroad of international trade routes. Moreover, transport system with more focus on vehicle safety promotion must take in to account to meet this new national policy. The traffic safety culture and more importantly drivers’ attitude is still a major concern in Iran. Many activities including educational campaign, new law regulations with more focus on traffic calming, police enforcement on the new law as well as more restriction on graduated driver licensing programs in the country are lunched and updated in recent years. The Iranian parliament in 2004 lunched a new policy for reduction of RTIs in the country by 50 percent till end of 2015. More than one percent of the Iranian population is affected as a result of RTIs annually, covering around one third of the Iranian hospitals beds. The mortality rate of RTI is estimated as 00 population in 2012, which ranks as the highest among middle-income countries for which reliable estimates can be made. RTI is a major health problem in Iran with 114321 Road Traffic Crashes (RTCs) and 22976 fatal RTIs. Focusing on economic terms and gross national product (GNP), RTIs’ cost is estimated to be around 1% of GNP in low-income countries, while it is roughly 1.5% in middle-income and 2% in high-income countries. RTI puts psychological and financial impacts on family and survivors as well. ![]() Being a major public health problem worldwide, Road Traffic Injuries (RTIs) are projected to increase in upcoming years. ![]()
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