Road Traffic Injuries - A Global Public Health Concern

Copyright: © 2012 Agnihotri AK. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Road traffic injuries are a major but neglected global public health problem which requires a great concern for their effective and sustainable prevention, and a reduction of their consequences. Globally, 20-50 million people receive moderate to severe injuries every year and nearly 3500 people die on the world’s road every day as a result of road traffic accidents [1]. The statistics show that majority of road traffic accidents has been caused by road users who infringed the traffic law such as driving faster than speed limit, driving carelessly, driving under influence of alcohol, using cell phones while driving, etc. The objective of writing this editorial is to raise awareness of the role of government in road traffic injuries prevention and the urgent need of medical assistance to the site within the golden hour i.e. first one hour after incident which is a vital period for saving lives. The time of notification indirectly affects the golden hour of victim management which should be carefully measured through the surveillance system