Prioritisation of road traffic injury prevention fund spending in developing countries

I read with much interest Dr Johnston's point of view on how the contribution from Bloomberg's philanthropies and possibly other international organisations should be invested to tackle road safety problems in low and middle-income countries (LMIC).1 Dr Johnston clearly made the point that policy makers should avoid supporting short-term ‘vertical’ prevention policies and preferentially consider the much needed adaptation of safer transport systems in LMIC. I …

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[2]  M. Cropper,et al.  Traffic Fatalities and Economic Growth , 2003, Accident; analysis and prevention.

[3]  Brian D Johnston Road traffic injury prevention , 2010, Injury Prevention.