Chapter 7

Question 1

Describe road safety?

Answer 1

Relates to interventions put in place to reduce the risk of crashes, death, and injury caused to individuals as a result of using roads.

Question 2

outline 2 reasons why Road safety was targeted

Answer 2

All road crashes are deemed preventable because the causes can be identified and targeted by health promotion campaigns.

Every day an average of 4 people are killed and 90 seriously injured as a result of using Aus roads.

Question 3

How have government laws and policies promoted road safety?

Answer 3

the development of rules and enforcements have been a major contributor to the success I reduced road toll.

wearing of seatbelts, random breath testing and speed cameras explain almost all the variation in mortality rates since the 1960’s.

Question 4

How have TAC campaigns promoted road safety?

Answer 4

played a large role in promoting road safety by focusing on a range of road safety issues to change public behaviour and decrease the road toll.

Addressed road safety by:

• Providing resources to target speeding and and drink driving
• create high profile, hard hitting mass media campaigns
• conducting road safety research

Question 5

How does Gov laws and policies reflect action areas of the Ottawa charter?

Answer 5

• road rules reflect health public policies, and the development of rules and law enforcement have been a major contributor to the success achieved in reducing the road toll.
• the intervention of random breath testing for example both builds healthy public policies but creates a supportive environment by reducing the number of drivers on the road affected by alcohol or drugs.

Question 6

How does the TAC campaigns reflect action areas of the Ottawa charter?

Answer 6

• These campaigns work to develop personal skills relating to young drivers, fatigue, drug and drink drivers etc.
• TAC assists in providing seminars to community groups, schools, businesses and to educate individuals about the risks associated with road use strengthening community action.
• Ambulance officers participate in educating individuals about the risks associated with road use, which is an example of reorienting health services.