Pedestrian safety - Global Road Safety Partnership

Introduction
How was the manual developed?
This manual is a result of three years of work by experts from public health, transport,
psychology, planning and implementation, coordinated by WHO. An outline of the
content of the manual, based on a standard format developed for the good practice
manuals, was produced by a team of writers. A literature review was conducted to
gather evidence and examples for preparing the manual. Two international experts
conducted the review by assembling published and grey literature, extracting the
information and preparing a literature review summary. The summary was used to
provide information for different sections of the manual as well as categorize the
examples of good practice provided in Module 4 into proven, promising or those
with insufficient evidence at this time. Randomized controlled trials and case–
control studies were used as the gold standard. A team of experts prepared a draft
of the manual, which was reviewed by experts from health, transport, planning and
implementation backgrounds. The review comments were used to revise the manual.
An advisory committee of experts from the various partner organizations oversaw
the process of further developing the manual, as has been the case with the other
good practice manuals on helmets, speed, drinking and driving, seat-belts and child
restraints, and data systems.
Dissemination of the manual
The manual will be translated into various major languages, and countries are
encouraged to translate the document into local languages. The manual will be
disseminated widely through the distribution channels of all four organizations
involved in the series.
The manual is also available for downloading in PDF format from the websites of all
four partner organizations. This manual is downloadable from http://www.who.int/
roadsafety, for example.
How to obtain more printed copies
Further copies can be requested by e-mailing traffic@who.int, or by writing to:
Department of Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability
World Health Organization
20, Appia Avenue, CH-1211
Geneva 27, Switzerland
References
1. Peden M et al., eds. World report on road traffic injury prevention. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2004.
2. Global status report on road safety: time for action. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2009.
3. Global status report on road safety 2013: supporting a decade of action. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2013.
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