Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.
Int J Inj Contr Saf Promot. 2012;19(3):278-89. doi: 10.1080/17457300.2012.696660. Epub 2012 Jul 17.
Injury is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The UAE is a rapidly developing country with fast economic growth, demographical and environmental changes that are associated with new hazards emerging at a similar pace. The UAE as a federal entity has federal and local systems responsible for safety policy, regulations and enforcement. To set priorities for safety promotion and injury prevention, it is necessary to have data on the most frequent external causes of injury and the main individual, equipment and environmental risk factors that contribute to injury. However good quality data for injury prevention are scarce. The aim of this paper is to describe the scale of injury as a public health problem in the UAE, and the development of safety policies, regulations and promotion efforts with special emphasis on traffic, occupational and child safety.
在阿联酋，伤害是发病率和死亡率的主要原因。阿联酋是一个快速发展的国家，经济增长迅速，人口和环境变化迅速，新的危害也随之迅速出现。阿联酋作为一个联邦实体，拥有负责安全政策、法规和执法的联邦和地方系统。为了确定促进安全和预防伤害的优先事项，有必要了解伤害最常见的外部原因以及导致伤害的主要个人、设备和环境风险因素。然而，用于预防伤害的高质量数据却很缺乏。本文的目的是描述伤害作为阿联酋公共卫生问题的严重程度，以及安全政策、法规和促进工作的发展，特别强调交通、职业和儿童安全。
