Safety and Mobility
Within the Social Determinants of Health Department, the Safety and Mobility (SAM) Unit promotes sustainable solutions to the safety and mobility challenges of today, including road traffic injuries, drowning and falls. The SAM Unit does so by providing strategic leadership on these topics; developing evidence, norms and standards, including implementation tools; building national capacities to address these issues; and fostering global advocacy. The SAM Unit engages a broad range of partners and networks to scale up effective action and track progress in countries.
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This toolkit presents a compendium of policy options for walking and cycling, highlighting the multiple benefits that promoting and enabling safe walking...
The country and territory profile report accompanies the Global status report on road safety 2023 and is the last of the three report-related products...
Global status report on drowning prevention 2024
The Global status report on drowning prevention details the scale of global drowning fatalities, and progress made in advancing strategies and actions...
Global status report on road safety 2023
The Global status report on road safety 2023 shows that the number of annual road traffic deaths has fallen slightly to 1.19 million. The report shows...
Global status report on road safety 2023: summary
The Summary of the Global status report on road safety 2023 shows that the number of annual road traffic deaths has fallen slightly to 1.19 million. The...
Hidden depths: the global investment case for drowning prevention: web annex: methodology and results...
Drowning is a preventable tragedy that claims almost 236 000 lives each year, most of them young children. It is an urgent issue that needs more attention...
Drowning is a preventable tragedy that claims almost 236 000 lives each year, most of them young children. It is an urgent issue that needs more attention...
Safe, quality helmets reduce the risk of death in a road crash by over six times, and reduce the risk of brain injury by up to 74%. Head trauma is the...