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Paper Title:
The potential for collaborative,
preventative approaches to reduce road trauma among youth
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Authors:
Anne Harris, Alana Hulme
Abstract:
This paper details findings
of an exploratory research project that has focused 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 both in research, programs, and interventions
are 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 evidence to show that upstream factors that may
influence many individuals are in fact common across a number of
health outcomes. Using information obtained from studies and programs
that have addressed some of these issues as well as information
from workshops with health and road safety professionals, it appears
that a co-operative approach to protecting young people from common
risk factors could have great benefits across many areas. It also
appears that working at an 'upstream' level may have the potential
to reduce road trauma among young people and warrants further investigation
and development.
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