- Road Traffic Accident Prevention Programs for Young Adults
This scoping review examined 17 interventions for reducing road traffic accidents (RTAs) among young adults. It provides evidence that RTAs can be reduced among young adults and novice drivers using a wide range of simple interventions...
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- Community Guide, The (Guide to Community Preventive Services)
Evidence-based interventions for public health. Includes sections on alcohol, motor vehicles, physical activity, tobacco, cancer, nutrition, pregnancy, vaccines, diabetes, obesity, sexual behavior, violence, mental health, oral health,...
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- National Center for Safe Routes to School
This site helps community leaders, parents and schools develop programs and strategies that encourage and enable more children to safely walk and bike to school. It offers news, state contacts, a 'how-to' manual, and extensive resources for...
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- Ad Council
Covers radio and TV public service ads (PSAs)Topics include: environment (environmental involvement, global warming, oceans), fatherhood involvement, health and safety (booster seats, child abuse, asthma, obesity, crime prevention,...
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Includes many annotated links to other web-based resources supporting social marketing and social change...
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- Program Impact Attribution
This document provides a brief summary of options for assessing what portion of any measured behavior changes resulted from your program and what portion resulted from other influences. These options can also be used to attribute the...
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- Global Status Report on Road Safety
This 2023 report provides a snapshot of the road safety situation globally, highlighting the gaps and the measures needed to best drive progress....
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- Program Evaluation Methods; Measurement and Attribution of Program Results
A good, detailed, freely accessible overview of program evaluation and attribution methods....
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- CDC Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Provides resources on home and recreational safety, motor vehicle safety, violence prevention, traumatic brain injury and injury responseThe Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) is an interactive, online database...
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- Road Rage - Contributing Factors
Cutting in and weaving, speeding, and hostile displays are among the top online complaints posted by drivers, according to a new study by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) recently published in an online issue of Accident...
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- Adding hope to mitigate defensive responses: the effect of guilt+hope appeals in road safety campaigns
Guilt appeals are increasingly being used in road safety campaigns, despite recent research that has raised doubts about their effectiveness and the potential for triggering defensive responses. Building on the extended parallel process...
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- Improve Your School Arrival and Departure Procedures
This toolkit for school safety committees provides a step-by-step guide for school communities seeking to improve safety on their campuses during student arrival and departure times.This is a step-by-step guide for school communities...
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- Effects of Interventions for Preventing Road Traffic Crashes: an Overview of Systematic Reviews
This overview of 35 systematic reviews found that road safety campaigns reduced the number of road traffic crashes by 9%. Mass media campaigns reduced crashes across all studies and all levels of crash severity by 10%. Enforcement (e.g....
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- STEP IT UP! The (U.S.) Surgeon General's call to action to promote walking and walkable communities
Being physically active is one of the most important steps that Americans of all ages can take to improve their health. But only half of adults and about a quarter of high school students get the amount of physical activity recommended in...
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- Engaging Teachers to Communicate Scientific Consensus on Climate Change and Other Topics
When consensus about a risk or mitigating behavior is newly developed and/or not clearly understood, communicating that consensus through teachers / instructors can be critical. While this blog entry focuses on climate change, it may also...
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- Impact of Comics vs Photographs on Knowledge, Attitude and Behavioural Intentions
This 2017 study compares two modes of visually presenting information - one using photographs and the other using cartoons - on audience's knowledge, attitudes and behavioural intentions.This study compares two modes of visually presenting...
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- Motor Vehicle Safety Training for Small Businesses
This study, conducted in 2016-2017 by RTI on behalf of the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), looked at what motor vehicle safety topics and products are of greatest use to small businesses.Four focus groups...
http://www.toolsofchange.com/en/topic-resources/detail/245
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- Who Doesn't Mind Waiting? Examining the relationships between waiting attitudes and person- and travel-related attributes
Longer commute times and distances are correlated with negative attitudes toward waiting, while commuters with pro-transit, pro-density, and pro-active transportation attitudes tend to have positive attitudes toward waiting. Additionally,...
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- Tips for Reducing Car Use in Cities
The city of Pontevedra, Spain has been restricting car use since 1999. This article outlines transferable lessons the city has learned along the way. The city of Pontevedra, Spain has been restricting car use since 1999. This article...
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- Applying the Anger Activism Model
The Anger Activism Model (AAM) can be used for segmentation. People with high anger and strong efficacy (i.e. 'activists') are more likely to engage in information seeking and are more accurate and defense-motivated when examining...
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- EPPI-Centre
Contains reviews of research evidence on interventions related to active transportation (walking and cycling), rod safety, physical activity, heart health (cardiovascular disease), HIV / AIDS, nutrition, obesity, tobacco (smoking), conflict...
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- Health-Evidence.ca
A free, searchable online registry of systematic reviews on the effectiveness of public health and health promotion interventions. The content has been quality rated. Bilingual (English and French).
Topics include: AIDS, environmental...
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