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WHO wants to promote helmet use
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has published a manual to provide governments with advice on making helmet use mandatory among bikers.
According to the WHO the real target of its new publication is low and middle-income countries, where motorcyclists account for more than 50 per cent of all road deaths and injuries.
Its new manual looks at how governments can deal with issues such as how to make helmets cheaper for bikers, how helmet-use can be enforced and how child passengers on bikes can best be protected.
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Acting director-general Dr. Anders Nordstrom explained: "We want to make helmet use a high priority for national public health systems.
"We need to stress not only the effectiveness of helmets in saving lives, but the fact that helmet programmes are good value for money. Countries will recoup their investment in these programmes many times over through savings to their health care systems, as well as savings to other sectors."
The organisation offered paradigms of how making helmet use compulsory can vastly improve biker safety, such as the case of Thailand, where the law change has reduced head injuries by 40 per cent and deaths by 24 per cent.
Studies show that wearing a helmet reduces the chance of bikers picking up a serious injury in an accident by 70 per cent and the possibility of death by 40 per cent.
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