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

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2017-03-01

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GUPTA, SHİVAM
HOE, CONNIE
Özkan, Türker
Lajunen, T. J.
VURSAVAS, FATİH
SENER, SERAP
Hyder, A. A.

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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.

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Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Medicine, Road safety, Monitoring and evaluation, Turkey, Low- and middle-income countries

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/42088

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PUBLIC HEALTH

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2017.01.013

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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.