This paper details findings of an exploratory research project that is focusing on a complementary avenue of considering road trauma within a broader framework of health determinants and outcomes. To date, road safety and health promotion initiatives in research, programs, and interventions have been largely focused on describing single behaviours and single solutions (eg. drink driving, drug and alcohol use, crime prevention), rather than working on common causes and common synergistic responses. However there is a growing body of evidence that indicates common factors underlie multiple, negative health outcomes. A collaborative partnership has been established between the road safety, education, health, and crime prevention sectors in the state of Victoria, Australia. This partnership will be introducing a new way of developing protective factors in young people through a range of Victorian schools in 2003, via a process that addresses young people in the middle years of schooling. (Author/publisher) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract No. E208290.
Samenvatting