Public Health and the Law

Public Health and the Law

Introduction

The United States is the 60s began to make systematic efforts to reduce traffic fatalities. There was a remarkable improvement, despite the increase in vehicles. The experience reported in the MMWR 1, the official publication of which was reproduced in JAMA. The reduction in mortality from accidents in the United States is a satisfactory response from public health to one of the greatest technological achievements of the twentieth century: the engine of the country. Today the car drive up to six times more people than in 1925, and the number of cars increased ...