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| Title |
Road Traffic Injury as a Major Public Health Issue in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A Review
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Public Health, September 2016
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpubh.2016.00215 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Erica DeNicola, Omar S. Aburizaize, Azhar Siddique, Haider Khwaja, David O. Carpenter |
| Abstract |
Injury was the largest single cause of disability-adjusted life years and death in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2013. The vast majority of injury-related fatalities are deaths caused by road traffic. Measures to control this serious public health issue, which has significant consequences for both Saudi families and the Saudi economy as a whole, have been underway for years but with little success. Most attempts at intervening revolve around attempts for enforcing stricter traffic laws and by installing automated traffic monitoring systems that will catch law breakers on camera and issue tickets and fines. While there has been much research on various factors that play a role in the high rate of road traffic injury in The Kingdom (e.g., driver behavior, animal collisions, disobeying traffic and pedestrian signals, environmental elements), virtually no attention has been given to examining why Saudi drivers behave the way that they do. This review provides a thorough account of the present situation in Saudi Arabia and discusses how health behavior theory can be used to gain a better understanding of driver behavior. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 33% |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 33% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 142 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 141 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 25 | 18% |
| Student > Bachelor | 16 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 15 | 11% |
| Researcher | 11 | 8% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 9 | 6% |
| Other | 17 | 12% |
| Unknown | 49 | 35% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 21 | 15% |
| Engineering | 11 | 8% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 9 | 6% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 7 | 5% |
| Computer Science | 7 | 5% |
| Other | 29 | 20% |
| Unknown | 58 | 41% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 May 2023.
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#2,969,175
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#1,174
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#50,988
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#16
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