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J Epidemiol Community Health 58:169-174 doi:10.1136/jech.2003.012385
  • Evidence based public health policy and practice

Health impact assessment as an agent of policy change: improving the health impacts of the mayor of London’s draft transport strategy

Table 2

Proposed indicators

Health indicators on road safety and accidents to be included Final transport strategy
National targets:
40% reduction in total number killed or seriously injured in road accidents; In addition to the targets identified in the draft strategy, the GLA was committed to
50% reduction in number of children killed or seriously injured; reviewing state of the environment indicators including consideration of health indicators;
10% reduction in slight casualty rate, (number of people slightly injured per 100 million vehicle kilometres). developing high level quality of life indicators.
Additional London targets:
40% reduction in number of pedestrians killed or seriously injured in road accidents; 40% reduction in number of cyclists and of motorcyclists killed or seriously injured in road accidents. IT was noted that it would be advantageous to integrate indicators of transport impacts on health in these wider frameworks so that they are embedded in on-going processes.

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