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. 2023 May 4;17(3):459-460.
doi: 10.1177/15598276231172572. eCollection 2023 May-Jun.

Celebrating Global Road Safety Week

David A Sleet

Celebrating Global Road Safety Week

David A Sleet. Am J Lifestyle Med. .

Abstract

May 15-21, 2023 is Global Road Safety Week hosted by the World Health Organization to raise awareness about road safety and opportunities for prevention. Lifestyle practitioners and health care providers can contribute to these efforts in many ways from counseling patients to change risky behaviors to supporting efforts to improve pre-hospital trauma care.

Keywords: Accident prevention; Lifestyle Medicine; Road Safety; Traffic Injury.

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The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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