Roberts I, Ashton T, Dunn R, Lee-Joe T
Injury Prevention Research Centre, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Aust J Public Health. 1994 Jun;18(2):209-12. doi: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.1994.tb00228.x.
The traditional approach to the prevention of child pedestrian injuries in New Zealand is pedestrian education. However, none of the programs currently being implemented in New Zealand have ever been shown to reduce injury rates. The allocation of scarce resources to pedestrian education must therefore be questioned. In this paper we estimate the number of serious child pedestrian injuries which might be prevented if the resources allocated to pedestrian education were allocated instead to environmental approaches, in particular, to traffic calming. It is estimated that approximately 18 hospitalisations of child pedestrians could be prevented each year under this alternative resource allocation, disregarding any other benefits of traffic calming. These results emphasise the need to consider the potential sacrifices involved in the allocation of scarce resources to child pedestrian education.
新西兰预防儿童行人受伤的传统方法是行人教育。然而，目前在新西兰实施的任何项目都未曾被证明能降低受伤率。因此，将稀缺资源分配给行人教育的做法必须受到质疑。在本文中，我们估计了如果将分配给行人教育的资源转而用于环境改善方法，特别是交通稳静化，可能预防的严重儿童行人受伤数量。据估计，在这种资源重新分配的情况下，每年可预防约18名儿童行人住院，且不考虑交通稳静化的任何其他益处。这些结果强调了在将稀缺资源分配给儿童行人教育时，需要考虑潜在的牺牲。
