Public Health Policy : Minor Injuries From Traffic Collisions

The Ottawa Charter for health promotion is a document developed in 1986 by the W.H.O that aims at enabling, empowering and encouraging people to improve, and increase control over their own health. In relation to road safety, all five action areas are addressed through the introduction and availability of specific services to the public by all levels of government, NGO’s, the community and individuals.

The article provides a discussion regarding data reviews of selected sources on indirect and directs costs of healthcare-related accidents. Indirect and direct ratios for various credible research studies undergo computations so as to update them and allow for the estimation of the current

(Greg Monforton, Statistics). People between the ages of 19-24 account for the majority of impaired driving accidents. In fact, more 19 year olds are killed or suffer from impaired driving accidents than any other age group. It is clear that skill and their level of maturity. Now you have to wonder, who exactly is causing these accidents? Being a male is already a major problem, in fact 87% of fatally injured impaired drivers are male. Also, summer time is considered the “peak” season for impaired driving, summertime accounts for 40%. Another factor is the time of week, as one can assume, the weekend hold the majority of impaired driving cases. Similarly, the majority of these accidents happen at night. The statistics say enough, one who is over .10% BAC is 51% likely to get into a collision. (Greg Monforton, Statistics). Motor vehicle collisions are the major cause of death for 15-25 year olds. Many of these statics are based on the use of alcohol, but there is also marijuana and distracted driving that plays a major role in car collisions. Canadians that are between the ages of 15-25 have the largest cannabis use in the

Bodily Injury: No matter what type of motor vehicle accident, it is important for victims to be properly

Background and Audience Relevance: According to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in 2015, about thirty-five hundred people were killed, and four hundred thousand were injured in car crashes.

The Federal government is responsible for insuring equal distribution and accessibility of health care services to citizens though they are not the only party that shape the policies of Canada’s healthcare but also the influence of doctors, health professionals, political parties, and businesses are also used (Canadian Stakeholders, n.d., para 2). The 1984 Canada Health Act outlines the requirements that provincial governments must meet. However; since there is not a descriptive list mentioning insurance services in the Act, the insured services in provinces vary creating a power shift (The Canada Health Act, 2005). Provinces also control the licensing of hospitals as well as doctors,

On Tuesday, September 29th my partner and I had the opportunity to interview a 55-year-old patient named Tom at LA County Hospital, admitted nine days prior for injuries he sustained after being struck by a city vehicle. His injuries were quite apparent the moment we sat down with him: his right foot bandaged up, having been crushed by the vehicle’s tires, abrasions and bruising all over his lower limbs and worst of all, a broken pelvis. Yet despite the bad shape he was in, Tom was kind enough share his life story with us and provide the limited knowledge he had about his insurance history.

A variety of risks are involved with driving a vehicle; one of the most important risks associated with driving is impairment. Impaired driving is one the problems that has been a criminal act in Canada since 1921(statcan). Individuals who drive vehicles while under the influence of drugs and alcohol present themselves immediate danger through lack of attention and a rise in unsafe driving practices. Furthermore, impairment also presents drivers increased chances of receiving tickets which pose additional financial issues. Impaired driving can include the use of marijuana, prescription drugs, non-prescribed drugs and alcohol. "Impaired driving is the leading cause of death on highways. Police patrols can reduce road accidents, provided they are effective"(Dionne, 2006). Studies focusing on higher police patrol presence and road blocks have data concluding the positive effects on the communities that are a part of the plan to reduce drinking and driving. Although drinking and driving had steadily been on the decline for the past 25 years there was a small rise from 2006 to 2011.(statcan). The fight against drinking and driving has led to

All over Canada, province to province, we as a country have been fighting against drinking and driving. Recently, in September of 2015, in north of Kleinburg a 3 vehicle crash created by a reckless and drunk driver. The accused, a 29 year old man from Vaughan, Marco Muzzo who constructed a 3 vehicle crash that lead too a six member family. Taking the death of the family of Jennifer Neville-Lake and her husband, Edward Lake. Muzzo “faced 18 charges, including impaired driving and dangerous driving causing death, after three siblings and their grandfather. The grandmother and great grandmother were severely injured” (CBC Vaughan car crash). Muzzo had past provincial offences involving alcohol and driving presented from the court records. The

“From all evidence available we need to try and address the one in five collisions which relate to young drivers in their first six months of driving, so I propose a two element approach:

Recently, a driver was cited in Colorado Springs for careless driving after the woman’s truck went over the median, hit a fire hydrant, and landed on another woman’s car. Amazingly enough, the woman in the car not only survived but did not even need to go to the hospital. The woman driving the truck was transported to the hospital, but her injuries were not life-threatening.

Casualties of car accidents get a portion of the greatest individual harm remuneration instalments, particularly when the harm includes critical harm to the spine or brain and the casualty gets the right direction all through the common lawful procedure by a top mischance damage lawyer. This is totally key on the grounds that the normal auto collision casualty does not comprehend what rights they have under the Insurance Act. Besides, they frequently don't comprehend the terms of their protection strategy.

Sometimes life can just be a big mess with our hectic schedules. Although today’s society emphasizes a “fast and busy” life in order to increase our productivity as Canadian citizens, it can at times have the opposite effect when citizens get severely injured or even die due to impaired driving. To start, it is important to define what impaired driving is. First of all, impaired driving is simply driving with a sort of handicap whether it is through the influence of drugs, alcohol, or even mood such as excessive excitement or rage.1 Furthermore, it could also be anything that distracts us in general such as multitasking while driving, talking in the cellphone, or looking at the scenery outside and neglecting to pay proper attention to driving.

Along with accidents not only comes a little headache or a broken bone, but injuries that stay with you forever such as whiplash and brain damage. Most brain damage incidents occur when you are involved in a side impact collision and the side of your head hits the glass (brain injury). Side impact airbags are just one of the many ways in which this type of life threatening injury can be avoided (whiplash). There is also whiplash, which hurls your head violently, and usually results in long term disability. Since whiplash is so hard to avoid, it can only be avoided by reducing the number of accidents on the streets. Also one of the most painful and most traumatizing injuries that we encounter in accidents are bone fractures, which occur in 65% of all accidents (Bush 11). So in turn by making these cars safer we can all avoid these painful, traumatizing, life-threatening injuries.

Car accidents can happen to drivers anytime, anywhere. "According to the National Safety Council, which stated that more than 2.5 million collisions back every year, making it the most common type of car accidents, it is also known that the accident rear end as incidents of injury, because the nature of the collision leads often in whiplash injury the driver in the car in front and about 20% of people who participated in a rear collision injury symptoms of this kind. ", (NHTSA, auto-accident-resource.com). Among the car accidents, the teenage group is the only age group who is number of deaths is increasing instead of decreasing. Also, all the people are exposed to risk and actually every one of them has got car