{"id":72613355,"date":"2007-04-21T10:22:35","date_gmt":"2007-04-21T10:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=72613355"},"modified":"2007-04-21T10:22:35","modified_gmt":"2007-04-21T10:22:35","slug":"traffic-deaths-a-global-scourge-health-agency-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=72613355","title":{"rendered":"Traffic Deaths a Global Scourge, Health Agency Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By David Brown<br \/>\nWashington Post Staff Writer<br \/>\nFriday, April 20, 2007; Page A09<br \/>\nTraffic injuries are the leading cause of death in people ages 10 to 24 around the world &#8212; a huge, overlooked and largely preventable public health problem, the World Health Organization said yesterday.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&quot;It is a big public health issue for kids, and we can do something about it,&quot; said Etienne Krug, a physician who heads WHO&#8217;s department for injury and violence prevention.<br \/>\nAs does most of the public health world, WHO eschews the term &quot;traffic accidents.&quot; In a statement accompanying the report, the organization&#8217;s new director-general, Margaret Chan, said that &quot;road traffic crashes are not &#8216;accidents.&#8217; We need to challenge the notion that they are unavoidable.&quot;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/04\/19\/AR2007041902409.html?hpid=sec-health\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/04\/19\/AR2007041902409.html?hpid=sec-health<\/a>oldId.20070421102235178<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David Brown Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, April 20, 2007; Page A09 Traffic injuries are the leading cause of death in people ages 10 to 24 around the world &#8212; a huge, overlooked and largely preventable public health problem, the World Health Organization said yesterday. &#8230; &quot;It is a big public health issue for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=72613355\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Traffic Deaths a Global Scourge, Health Agency Says&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72613355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72613355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72613355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72613355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72613355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72613355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72613355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}