Confronting "Death on Wheels" : making roads safe in Europe and Central Asia : establishing multisectoral partnerships to address a silent epidemic.

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This report provides an overview of the challenges and opportunities in addressing road safety in the ECA (Europe and Central Asia) Region. It presents information on the size, characteristics, and causes of the problem; presents evidence on the effectiveness of measures that countries world-wide have adopted to improve road safety; briefly describes current international road safety policy; and discusses a range of strategies and actions that could be undertaken by the World Bank in coordination and partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO), multilateral development banks, other international agencies and donors, as well as with private and civil society institutions. (Author/publisher) The full report as well as the Executive Summary in Russian is posted at http://www.worldbank.org/eca/roadsafety.

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20100512 ST [electronic version only]
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Washington, D.C., The World Bank, Europe and Central Asia Region Human Development Department (ECSHD), 2009, XVII + 91 p., 215 ref.; World Bank Report No. 51667-ECA

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This publication is one of our other publications, and part of our extensive collection of road safety literature, that also includes the SWOV publications.