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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder as a determinant of motorcycle accidents in Fars province of Iran
Conclusion: Findings of this study indicated that traffic accidents increased with the higher scores of ADHD in motorcyclists, and hyperactivity may be considered as a risk factor of driving risky behaviors such as exceeding the speed limits, illegal overtaking, and maneuvering while driving and finally accidents of motorcyclists. (Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research)
Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research - September 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Prediction of driving behavior based on emotional intelligence & driving risk perception
Conclusion: Emotional intelligence& driving risk perception could predict 16% of driving behavior. That means by increasing emotional intelligence& promote driving risk perception among taxi drivers, the risky driving behavior could be decreased. In the other words drivers who do risky driving behavior and commit driving offenses, their emotional intelligence is less than other drivers. (Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research)
Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research - September 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Developing Pedestrians ’ Red-light Violation Behavior Questionnaire (PRVBQ): Assessment of Content Validity and Reliability
Conclusion: This study provided a valid and reliable questionnaire which can be used to predict and to determine their underlying beliefs regarding their red-light violation behavior. (Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research)
Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research - September 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

The association between traffic safety health beliefs and traffic risk behaviors in secondary technical vocational school students in China
Conclusion: Traffic risk behaviors in secondary technical vocational school students were highly prevalent and clustered. Peer effect in vocational school students should be taken into full consideration to improve traffic safety. Further intervention for traffic safety should increase health education to increase students ’ health belief.  (Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research)
Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research - September 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Prevalence and perceptions of cell phone use while walking in high school students
Conclusion: At present, high school students ' distracted walking phenomenon is serious. It is very important to understand the factors influencing the use of mobile phones by students while walking, to carry out the set of school education, parents ’ education, peer education and social education as one of the pedestrian safety education, and to strengthen students ' awareness of the dangers of distracted walking. (Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research)
Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research - September 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Study of pedestrian behavior and its effective factors in Sahand new city
Conclusion: According to results, maturity and experience which comes from increasing education level, marriage, increasing age will have a proper effect on traffic behavior of Sahand pedestrians. But regarding gender, it was observed that there was no significant relationship between gender and traffic behavior of Sahand pedestrians. (Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research)
Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research - September 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Failure to comply with the law of freedom of right turn at intersections by drivers and its impact on the equation of Cost -benefit and the behavioral architecture of a Healthy City
Conclusion: Immediate action for geometric correction of crossroads is required for preventing wastage of national resources and imposing economic costs on community members and the wasted time due to abnormal traffic behavior ‚ increased GNP and moving toward Sustainable development will follow as a Consequence. Key words: Cost Benefit‚ GNP‚ Sustainable Development‚ Occupational Health Engineering. (Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research)
Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research - September 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Prevalence of nonuse of helmet and seat belt and distracted driving on national highway in Pakistan
Conclusion: Lack of enforcement due to deficient traffic laws result in RTIs in Pakistan. There is need to improve legislation on different forms of distractions, use of seat belt among passengers and helmet use by pillion riders; so that enforcement efforts can be made to address risk factors effectively to meet Decade of Action 2011-2020 targets. (Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research)
Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research - September 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Effects of warning systems on the reactions of male and female drivers: A systematic review
Conclusion: Most of the included articles indicate that there are significant differences between male and female drivers after receiving warnings. This can be considered for customers to be more vigilant about choosing the appropriate warning system. (Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research)
Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research - September 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

The implementation results of safe bicycle transport in Taipei City
Conclusion: Changing car-oriented road planning, complete bicycle infrastructure, and respecting the driving awareness of bicycle users is the best protection for the public. All policies should have comprehensive safety policies to ensure personal safety. Just like separate two types of transport, the overall design of the exclusive separation bicycle road, the policy of forcing all ages riding locomotives to wear helmets, etc. In the future, we will continue to plan for self-defense special road layout, intersection ramp configuration, traffic engineering and parking and transfer facilities, so that all roads in the city...
Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research - September 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

City Planning and Governing of the communities
A community has many different opportunities to improve the traffic safety. The community is local part of the public sector. On all decision made has the community big impacts on questions within its own territory.Urban planning is an important tool. Urban planning is normally a rather complex system and important decisions are made in a long term perspective. It is very important for all who work for traffic safety to learn the system in order to have an impact.The big pallet a community has embrace also many other tools than urban planning.Reduce the need of transportation: Urban planning, public transportation, road to...
Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research - September 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Using Public Health Approach to make our programme logic
Among the seven indicators in international safe community, it is one of the core elements to solve the injury problem in the community in a project-based manner. The main purpose of the International Safe Community Certification Center promoting model projects and excellent projects to the world, is to provide good example and reference for the community. How to identify the main risk in the community? How to take appropriate intervention measures according to the specific conditions of the community? How to maximize the effectiveness of the project and effectively solve the major injury problems of the community? How to ...
Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research - September 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Classification of Drugs Listed in Iranian Pharmacopoeia Based on Impact on Driving Performance
This study conducted to classify Iranian pharmacopeia according to drugs effects on driving performance. The projects divided the drugs used in the treatment of diseases into three categories in terms of traffic safety. The project first identified and explored similar experiences in the world by reviewing scientific resources. For the medicines that their effects were determined in the existing classifications, their impact category were extracted from DRUID and ICADTS systems. For drugs that have different categories in two systems or unidentified their effects on these classifications, Drug side effects, especially in a...
Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research - September 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Economic Burden of Injuries argues for more Safe Communities in Iran and EMRO
Globally, injuries cost nearly 1 trillion USD during 2016 equivalent to one-third of the total GDP EMRO countries. World Health Organization (WHO) and other United Nations (UN) agencies are reiterating policy advocacies and planning for injury prevention activities. Total burden of injuries during 2018 for the EMRO countries was 163 538 795 009 USD while only RTI burden was 46 056 411 787 USD (28.2%).The EMRO countries are significantly loosing a big percentage of their GDPs due to amenable injury burden: Afghanistan 9.2%, Bahrain 1.93%, Djibouti 6.2%, Egypt 3%, Iran (Islamic Republic of) 4.3%, Iraq 12.95%, Jordan 3.24%, K...
Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research - September 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Vehicle Safety Post-Decade of Action for Road Safety: The Way Forward
continues. The experiences from the Decade of Action will help us to define an effective roadmap for the next decade.Vehicle safety has been one the areas that has been subjected to significant changes over the past decade with advancements in technology, especially in the field of active safety. This change in the field has been more tangible in High Income Countries (HICs). This note suggests a path to determine the effect of vehicle safety in Iran as a Low/Middle Income Country (LMIC), considering the road safety management structure of the country and introduces the priorities that need to be the subject of focus in fu...
Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research - September 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research