@article{ref1,
title="Place of woman in traffic accidents (analytical overview)",
journal="Trauma (Kyiv)",
year="2017",
author="Kudievsky, A. V. and Golovakha, M. L. and Shishka, I. V. and Maslennikov, S. O.",
volume="18",
number="1",
pages="93-96",
abstract="Injuries are one of the most important medical and social problems of modern time for the majority of countries in the world. Injury rate around the world has been steadily increasing, causing a huge public social and economic damage. Traffic injuries (RTIs) are a significant proportion in its structure, being the most severe injuries. Traffic accidents are the only external cause of death, and one of the seven leading causes by the Global Burden of Disease (The Global Burden of Disease: 2004 update Geneva, World Health Organization, 2008). According to WHO, all over the world daily 3,000 people die from accident-associated injuries and injured or nearly 40 million become disabled per year (World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention, Geneva, 2014). Injuries, being preventable, are an important and very real reserve for reducing population mortality. For over 40 years the Department of Traumatology, Orthopedics and Military Surgery in Zaporozhye State Medical University has been studying the issues of road traffic injuries. The research results offer a number of proposals for the prevention and timely organization of qualified and specialized medical care. In recent years, we have set the goal to study the role of a woman-driver in the structure of road accidents and road traffic injuries. According to our data of the analysis of accident cases (12,706) in Zaporizhzhia and sections of the route Kharkiv -- Simferopol in the range of 240 km from Zaporizhzhia region there were determined the most typical accidents provoked by male and female drivers. Japan is considered to have the lowest rate of traffic accidents. This is related to the fact, in particular, that female drivers are about 35 %, and the Japanese believe that this also reduces the rate of accidents on the roads. The analysis of 12 schools and courses for driving training in Zaporizhzhia region demonstrated a regular increase in the number of women who wish to acquire a driver's license among the students, with the exception for the candidates for a professional category. If the ratio of men and women on the courses in 1980th was 10 : 1, whereas in 2000 it was 10 : 4, and in 2015 -- 10 : 7. To the instructors' opinion, the women learn the theoretical part of the traffic code much better than the men, but are also far behind in learning the practical driving. We hope that when the proportion of female drivers 35 % as in Japan the number and severity of road traffic injuries will significantly reduce in Ukraine as well.   <p>Language: uk</p>",
language="uk",
issn="1608-1706",
doi="10.22141/1608-1706.1.18.2017.95596",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.22141/1608-1706.1.18.2017.95596"
}