Transport for Health Report - Safer and Cleaner Transport, Crucial for Improving Global Health

Transport for Health is a new report coproduced by the IHME and the World Bank Global Road Safety Facility. The report examines the health impact of transportation-related injuries and air pollution, which contribute increasingly to disease burden, particularly in lower-income countries. It also describes policy recommendations for reducing the negative health impacts of transport to ensure everyone can safely enjoy its benefits. Representatives from the World Bank, the IHME, the FIA Foundation, the Overseas Development Institute, the Health Effects Institute, and The Guardian discuss trends in road safety and vehicle emissions, and directions for the future. "By quantifying the burden of disease attributable to both road injury and air pollution from vehicles, the authors have found that motorized road transport deaths exceed those from diseases such as HIV, tuberculosis, or malaria. That is a powerful wake-up call", said Dr. Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group in the foreword to Transport for Health. Source: www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org