Follow Us:
Get the Upshot in your Inbox
FEB. 16, 2015
Jeremy N. Smith
–
The World Bank has made reducing transport deaths a major investment priority, and Michael Bloomberg is the leading philanthropist for global injury prevention efforts, as Bill Gates is for children’s vaccines. But no one tracks overall aid money to accident prevention, even though unintentional injuries cause 6.36 percent of global deaths.
If public health leaders are to catch up on accident prevention, the Global Burden of Disease study findings can help them see where and how.
“Now that somebody’s done the work and we recognize that there’s a difference we may not have seen before, we can go to work and ask why,” Dr. Schauben said.
Jeremy N. Smith is the author of “Epic Measures: One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients.”
