Impact of Motor Vehicle Injury in Taiwan Using Potential Productive Years of Life Lost

Motor vehicle injuries are a major harmful side effect of industralization. We examine this relationship in a rapidly industrializing country, Taiwan, using Potential Productive Years of Life Lost (PPYLL) analysis, and suggest ways that the injury toll of industrialization might be mitigated. We also compare Taiwan to the US, Hungary, Korea, and Chile. Taiwan has a higher PPYLL per 100, 000 population due to motor vehicle injury (530/100, 000) than cardiac disease, cancer, or strokes. Twenty-five years ago, more PPYLL was due to cancer, strokes, cardiac disease, and tuberculosis than to motor vehicle injuries (106/100, 000). Taiwan's PPYLL rate is much greater than three other industrializing countries-Chile, Korea, and Hungary-and twice that of the US. Explanations for the dramatic rise in motor vehicle injury deaths in Taiwan may be high use of motorcycles, lack of motorcycle helmets, increase in alcohol use, high car density, and road and vehicle safety design problems.

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Self-Reported Motor Vehicle Injury Prevention Strategies, Risky Driving Behaviours, and Subsequent Motor Vehicle Injuries: Analysis of Canadian National Population Health Survey

Canadian Public Policy ◽

10.1353/cpp.0.0062 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 36 (S) ◽

pp. S69-S80

Author(s):

Evelyn Vingilis ◽

Piotr Wilk

Keyword(s):

Injury Prevention ◽

Population Health ◽

Health Survey ◽

Motor Vehicle ◽

National Population Health Survey ◽

Prevention Strategies ◽

Risky Driving ◽

National Population ◽

Motor Vehicle Injury ◽

Motor Vehicle Injuries

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Motor Vehicle Injury in Childhood

Pediatrics in Review ◽

10.1542/pir.4.8.247 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 4 (8) ◽

pp. 247-254

Author(s):

Katherine K. Christoffel ◽

Robert Tanz

Keyword(s):

Traffic Safety ◽

Motor Vehicle ◽

Sudden Infant Death ◽

The United States ◽

Sudden Infant ◽

Older Children ◽

Highway Traffic ◽

National Highway Traffic Safety ◽

Motor Vehicle Injury ◽

Motor Vehicle Injuries

OVERVIEW OF EPIDEMIOLOGY In 1980 approximately 2 million Americans of all ages sustained motor vehicle injuries, and more than 52,000 died. Of the victims, nearly one quarter of a million injuries and 4,100 deaths involved children less than 15 years of age. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has estimated that approximately 2/100 infants born today will die in a traffic accident, and that two thirds of all infants born today will suffer injuries in such an accident. A statement by the American Association of Automotive Medicine, in its Guide for Medical Association Committee on Traffic Safety, helps to put the problem of motor vehicle injury further into perspective: "Cardiovascular disease, cancer, and stroke claim more lives, but many more young people, with many more remaining years of life, are killed or injured on the highway." In the United States, motor vehicle injury is the leading killer of children aged 1 to 4 years and of young adults; it ranks ahead of the malignancies, infectious diseases, and congenital anomalies (Table 1). For infants <1 year of age, although the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and diseases related to perinatal and birth disorders lead the list, motor vehicle mortality is actually higher for infants than for older children (Fig 1).

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Self-Reported Motor Vehicle Injury Prevention Strategies, Risky Driving Behaviours, and Subsequent Motor Vehicle Injuries: Analysis of Canadian National Population Health Survey

Canadian Public Policy ◽

10.3138/cpp.36.suppl.s69 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 36 (Supplement 1) ◽

pp. S69-S80 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Evelyn Vingilis ◽

Piotr Wilk

Keyword(s):

Injury Prevention ◽

Population Health ◽

Health Survey ◽

Motor Vehicle ◽

National Population Health Survey ◽

Prevention Strategies ◽

Risky Driving ◽

National Population ◽

Motor Vehicle Injury ◽

Motor Vehicle Injuries

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A Reassessment of Suicide Measurement

Crisis ◽

10.1027/0227-5910.30.1.6 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 30 (1) ◽

pp. 6-12 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

D.P. Doessel ◽

Ruth F.G. Williams ◽

Harvey Whiteford

Keyword(s):

Causes Of Death ◽

Motor Vehicle ◽

Years Of Life Lost ◽

Health Prevention ◽

Prevention Strategies ◽

Vehicle Accidents ◽

The Social ◽

Evaluation Exercise ◽

Two Measures ◽

Circulatory Diseases

Background. Concern with suicide measurement is a positive, albeit relatively recent, development. A concern with the social loss from suicide requires careful attention to appropriately measuring the phenomenon. This paper applies two different methods of measuring suicide data: the conventional age-standardized suicide (count) rate; and the alternative rate, the potential years of life lost (PYLL) rate. Aims. The purpose of applying these two measures is to place suicide in Queensland in a historical and comparative (relative to other causes of death) perspective. Methods. Both measures are applied to suicide data for Queensland since 1920. These measures are applied also to two largish causes of death and two smaller causes of death, i.e., circulatory diseases, cancers, motor vehicle accidents, suicide. Results. The two measures generate quite different pictures of suicide in Queensland: Using the PYLL measure, suicide is a quantitatively larger issue than is indicated by the count measure. Conclusions. The PYLL measure is the more appropriate measure for evaluation exercise of public health prevention strategies. This is because the PYLL measure is weighted by years of life lost and, thus, it incorporates more information than the count measure which implicitly weights each death with a somewhat partial value, viz. unity.

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Alcohol and Non-Motor-Vehicle Injuries: Literature Review

Public Health Reports (1896-1970) ◽

10.2307/4592784 ◽

1966 ◽

Vol 81 (7) ◽

pp. 585 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Harold W. Demone, ◽

Elizabeth H. Kasey

Keyword(s):

Literature Review ◽

Motor Vehicle ◽

Motor Vehicle Injuries

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Developing, implementing and transferring lean quality initiatives from the aerospace industry to all industries

Managing Service Quality ◽

10.1108/09604520010341645 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

pp. 248-256 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Dennis F.X. Mathaisel ◽

Clare L. Comm

Keyword(s):

Automobile Industry ◽

Lean Manufacturing ◽

Motor Vehicle ◽

Aerospace Industry ◽

Launch Vehicles ◽

Quality Initiatives ◽

Space Operations ◽

Space Industry ◽

The Us ◽

Japanese Companies

Japanese companies, particularly Toyota, first began building quality into their products and becoming lean. Consequently, researchers associated with the international motor vehicle industry initially identified the “lean” manufacturing paradigm in the US automobile industry. Building upon their successes, the US aerospace industry initiated a study to ascertain whether a similar initiative focused on launch vehicles and spacecraft would bring value to military and commercial aerospace stakeholders in their ongoing efforts to be lean. This paper presents the findings of this investigation. It explores the relevance and value of the lean concepts to the US defense launch vehicle, spacecraft, and space operations industries, and it ascertains if there is interest within space industry firms in establishing a lean initiative similar to that of the automotive industry. Further, the relevance of lean manufacturing to other industries is considered.

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