Emergency Medical Services are often lacking or inadequately trained and equipped. According to the World Bank, road accidents cost the global economy about five hundred billion United States dollars annually. Road accidents can result in annual losses of between 1 to 3 percent of a nation's gross domestic product. In the year 2020, road accidents will become the third leading health burden world-wide, according to The Global Burden of Disease, a study by The Harvard School of Public Health on behalf the World Health Organization and the World Bank. Their purpose is to improve road safety conditions worldwide.
Road safety is an issue that very much effects poor people.
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