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Driving under the influence of alcohol, or drink-driving, is a key risk factor for 27% of all road injuries. Thus, drink-driving is a significant public health problem that affects not only the alcohol user but also, in many cases, innocent parties such as passengers and pedestrians.
- Brief Interventions and Treatment
Access to health services is central to tackling...
- Pricing Policies
Alcohol taxation and pricing policies are among the most...
- Alcohol Advertising
Bans and comprehensive restrictions on alcohol advertising,...
- Alcohol Availability
Where alcohol is legal, the government has several...
- About SAFER
Advance and enforce drink driving countermeasures....
- Road Safety
In the case of drink-driving, risk of road traffic injury...
- Brief Interventions and Treatment
1 cze 2024 · Despite legal sanctions in place, people continue to drive after drinking alcohol; in fact, it was reported that drivers impaired by alcohol were responsible for 147 million instances of driving under the influence in 2018 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020).
17 sty 2018 · Evidence suggests that driving while impaired (DWI) enforcement, such as sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols, in combination with enforcement of speeding laws is effective at decreasing alcohol-related driving crashes and resulting injuries and fatalities (Sanem et al., 2015).
17 sty 2018 · School-based programs have shown reductions in the prevalence of drunk drivers and riding with drunk drivers (and associated behaviors), which reflect the effect of knowledge and a “social norm effect,” especially on younger people (Elder et al., 2005).
18 lut 2023 · This may mean that drink drivers are at significantly higher risk of crashing, not only because they could be more likely to engage in other risky driving behaviours (e.g., speeding, mobile phone use and fatigued driving), but also because they have a reduced ability to drive.
Alcohol-induced driving impairment can occur with any departure from a zero-blood alcohol concentration (BAC). Because intoxication is characterised by impaired judgement, drivers under the influence of alcohol may overestimate their capacity to safely operate a vehicle.
8 wrz 2011 · But a vibrant control campaign didn't emerge until a decade later, inspired not by public health interventions but by journalist Doris Aiken's investigation of the 1977 deaths of two Schenectady,...
