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After a year of the promulgation of the Ordinance 1568, the process of monitoring deaths from external causes (accidents, homicides and suicides), through data provided by the Institute of Legal Medicine, establishes the “Observatory on Fatal Injury Caused by External Factors” The Fatal Injury Observatory belongs to the Deputy of Health of the Social Development […]

The Second UN Global Road Safety Week was held on 6-12 May 2013 and it was dedicated to pedestrian safety. Requested by the UN General Assembly, the Week draw attention to the urgent need to better protect pedestrians worldwide, generate action on the measures needed to do so, and contribute to achieving the goal of

This international conference aims to bring out discussions about the quality of the systems for collecting and analyzing data in IRTAD, OISEVI and certain countries. In addition to discussions about methodological issues, cases of recent initiatives to improve the quality of the collection and analysis of data and also the latest research and analysis made

This past Thursday September 19th, the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit along with the National Institute of Public Health (INSP) and Fundacion Entornos A.C., organized the two day workshop “Principles of evaluation in Road Safety interventions” at the city of Leon, Guanajuato; Mexico. In the two-day session members from different organizations and cities, involved

Because of the great contributions we have received during thias last years, we believed that is important to acknowledge the effort and time invested from our RTIRN community on our newsletter. This is why we rewarded the best contributions of 2012. The Best Contribution Award (RTIRN BCA) of 2012 went to Dr. Hernán Málaga (Peru)

All Member States in the WHO South-East Asia (SEA) Region are low- and middle-income countries. In the SEA Region, the motorcycle is prevalently used as a family vehicle with children routinely transported as passengers. A motorcyclist is 26 times more likely to die in a crash per vehicle mile travelled in comparison with motorist. The

We are very sad to inform you that the former University Putra Malaysia (UPM) vice-chancellor and former RTIRN Board Member Professor Datuk (Dr.) Radin Umar Radin Sohadi recently passed away. Prof. Radin Umar was a great professional, a good friend and colleague of RTIRN and many of us on the board. He was also the

Dear RTIRN Partners, We are very happy to inform you that the 2013 RTIRN Small Grants Program’s review and selection process is finalized and we have our winners. The program had a great response receiving a total of 113 research proposals to conduct research on 45 different low and middle income countries! Due to the

The Republic Council on road traffic safety has coordinated the activities of the partner institutions for World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims 2013: Press-conference at the Republic Council on Road Traffic Safety held on November 14th 2013 Organization of round table on November 16th in Skopje entitled “How to reduce traffic accidents with

Between November 13th and 15th 2013, under the ITF-IRTAD/OISEVI Congress held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Fundación Gonzalo Rodriguez made a presentation of a poster about Child Road Safety in Uruguay: National Analysis and Regional Projection, with the outcome of research referring to Child Road Safety carried out by FGR in Uruguay (available at: www.gonzalorodriguez.org) and