Interventions to reduce impaired driving and traffic injury

摘要: This review characterizes the effectiveness of various interventions to prevent impaired driving and reduce traffic injury death. Interventions are considered within ecological/health promotion framework, include: 1) economic interventions, 2) organizational 3) policy 4) health education including use media, school community public awareness programs. Alcohol or drug-impaired arises from complex multiple interrelated causes. Therefore, prevention efforts will benefit approaches that rely on a combination educational, behavioral, environmental, approaches. Effective strengthen skills capabilities individuals take action capacity groups communities act collectively exert control over determinants driving. There is strong evidence for some retailer alcohol taxation, reducing availability, legal legislative strategies, strategies addressing servers alcohol, such as server liability intervention. also sobriety checkpoints, lower BAC laws, minimum drinking age supportive media Other with moderate include restricting advertising promotion, mobilization efforts, ignition interlocks in vehicles convicted drink-drive offenders. Health by itself has insufficient effectiveness, case passive training programs, drug safety warnings. Taken together, environmental using all four components model likely be most effective.