Impact of relaxing licensing requirements for motorcycle driving on traffic injuries

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Katherine Pérez, Marc Marí-Dell’Olmo, Carme Borrell, Manel Nebot , Joan R Villalbí, Elena Santamariña, Aurelio Tobias. Impact of relaxing licensing requirements for motorcycle driving on traffic injuries: a time series análisis. Bulletin of the World Health Organization (in press).

TITLE: Impact of relaxing licensing requirements for motorcycle driving on traffic injuries: a time series analysis Authors Katherine Péreza,b, Marc Marí-Dell’Olmoc,b,a, Carme Borrella,b,d, Manel Nebota,b,d , Joan R Villalbía,b,d, Elena Santamariñaa, Aurelio Tobiase a Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona. Pl Lesseps, 1. E08023 Barcelona. Spain b CIBER en Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Spain c Institut d’Investigació en Atenció Primària Jordi Gol d Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut e Escuela Nacional de Sanidad, Instituto de Salud Carlos III Keywords: Road Safety, Motorcycles, Traffic accidents, Injuries, Evaluation, Policy

Correspondence to: Katherine Pérez. Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona. Pl Lesseps, 1 E 08023 Barcelona Spain Fax. + 34 e-mail: cperez@aspb.cat

Contributions KP: Conceived the study and designed the study and performed some statistical analysis. MMD: Performed statistical analyses. CB: Assisted conceptualizing ideas. AT assisted refining the statistical analyses. KP Wrote the draft of the manuscript and all authors contributed to the interpretation of the results and the revision of the manuscript. Conflict of interest The authors express no conflicts of interest.

Katherine Pérez, et al. Impact of relaxing licensing requirements for motorcycle driving on traffic injuries: a time series análisis. BWHO. 2009

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