Evaluation of a five-year Bloomberg Global Road Safety Program in Turkey

2017-03-01
GUPTA, SHİVAM
HOE, CONNIE
Özkan, Türker
Lajunen, T. J.
VURSAVAS, FATİH
SENER, SERAP
Hyder, A. A.
Objective: Turkey was included in the Bloomberg Philanthropies funded Global Road Safety Program (2010-14) with Ankara and Afyonkarahisar (Afyon) selected for interventions to manage speed and encourage seat-belt use. The objectives of this study are to present the monitoring and evaluation findings of seat-belt use and speed in Afyon and Ankara over the five years and to assess overall impact of the program on road traffic injury, and death rates in Turkey.
PUBLIC HEALTH

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Citation Formats
S. GUPTA et al., “Evaluation of a five-year Bloomberg Global Road Safety Program in Turkey,” PUBLIC HEALTH, pp. 0–0, 2017, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/42088.