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The ________________ has developed a Global Plan as the framework to guide activities and initiatives to achieve the goals of the Action for Road Safety decade.

A) United Nations Road Safety Collaboration
B) WHO Road Safety Global Initiative
C) World Bank Road Safety Council
D) Action for Road Safety Collaboration

E) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

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Which of the following is often referred to as the "silent epidemic"?

A) Suicide
B) Traumatic brain injuries
C) Alcohol abuse
D) Use of illicit drugs

E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

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The ______________ is an active surveillance system created by the CDC to collect data on all violence-related deaths.

The _________________ has been compiled by the American Burn Association every year since 2005 and is an important source of longitudinal data on burn injury in the United States.

Which of the following is an interactive online database that contains comprehensive data from various sources on fatal and nonfatal injuries and injury-related hospitalizations?

The _________________ was established to raise money from private sector donors to achieve the goals of the Action for Road Safety decade.

At the beginning of the Decade of Action, which of the following was developed to provide baseline data on global road safety conditions?

Enter the percentage of nonfatal traumatic brain injuries caused by each of the following: Motor vehicle crashes ___________ Falls ___________ Direct trauma to the head ___________

An online application known as the ______________ is used to estimate alcohol-attributable violent death rates in the United States.

In 2014, trauma accounted for 30% of all _____________ in the country.

A majority of burn injuries are work-related.

The U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) developed and implemented the ________________ to collect data related to injuries associated with the use of a consumer product.

The most common cause of traumatic brain injuries are motor vehicle crashes.

Which of the following are the two main risk factors for road traffic injuries globally?

In the United States alcohol-related violent death rates exceed those for automobile traffic crashes.

According to an estimate by the American Burn Association in 2015, most of the deaths resulting from burn injuries were due to:

Victims of moderate or severe ________________ after rehabilitation and recovery have been found to be twice as likely to die within 3.5 years as compared with the general public.

In 2013, _______________ ranked as the fourth most common cause of death in the United States.

The steady decline in the number of road traffic fatalities in the United States can be attributed to which two of the following factors?

More than half of the 21,000 passenger vehicle occupants who were killed in crashes in 2014 were not restrained.