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Review
. 2024 Oct 9:12:1457616.
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1457616. eCollection 2024.

The Safe System Approach and technology-what works?

Nicole Booker  1 , Glendedora Dolce  1 , Simon Patrick Obi  1
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The Safe System Approach and technology-what works?

Nicole Booker et al. Front Public Health. .

Abstract

The Safe System Approach is an evidence-based strategy committed to eliminating fatalities and serious injuries among all road users. The Safe System Approach as developed in Sweden, acknowledges that human errors will occur, but the cost of these mistakes should not be death or serious injury. Technology is an integral component of the Safe System Approach and can address equity and reduce human error among other safety benefits. A literature review will be conducted to compare high-income countries leveraging the Safe System Approach and assess opportunities for technology interventions in low- and middle-income contexts. Evidence will be analyzed, as well as implementation considerations of the recent National adoption of the Safe System Approach in the United States. As SSA evolves in a global context, further evaluation is needed on the role of technology and how government policies can restrict or advance its implementation.

Keywords: Safe System Approach; high-income countries (HICs); injury prevention; low-and lower-middle-income countries; technology.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Fatality rate in traffic deaths per 100 k population, WHO 2018 and 2023 (1, 51).
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