Write a 8 page essay on Road Safety Education in School.Download file to see previous pages... Road safety education programs at schools are one type of intervention used to ensure that awareness is c

Write a 8 page essay on Road Safety Education in School.

Road safety education programs at schools are one type of intervention used to ensure that awareness is created as to health issues (Retting, et al., 2003, pp.17-23). The paper also discusses issues of health promotion and focuses on health promotion interventions used to ensure road safety. Also examined are the weaknesses that have been experienced in interventions used. The paper will examine planning process for hypothetical health promotion intervention as well as, discussing all the stages involved. Finally, a detail conclusion will be provided. 2.0 Rationale The purpose of writing this paper is to enable understanding of the concepts underlying health promotion. It is to give the meaning of what a health promotion intervention entitles. It is also written to make us understand the planning process involved in health promotion intervention and it is based on road safety education in schools. 3.0 Road Safety Education Road safety education is vital in every country because of great number of road crashes that still kill high number of road users. Just like other diseases road crashes has become an injury burden in the world. Death and subsequent trauma cost accompanied by it remains a tragedy in every country. The road infrastructure, road user and vehicles used may be attributed to the cause of road crash. Focus, therefore, should be directed in effective safety management process where individuals in the country are educated on importance of maintaining safety on road. A comprehensive approach should be undertaken to ensure that road crashes are significantly reduced since they are inevitable. The approach should range from improved road designs, development and implementation of school training programmes on road safety, enhanced standards for safety equipment in vehicles, improved medical care and emergency services. Road safety education is important since road crashes and losses brought with it involve important sections of a country setup. The main concern of road safety education is to reduce number of careless road accidents that can be avoided through impacting of proper knowledge to learners (Christian, 2004, pp. 34-38). Road safety is a great issue in any country. Economically, it is a burden to a country because it reduces GDP where resources are allocated to take care of affected instead of being used for productive purposes. The cost of road accidents has always been high than its benefit. Road construction and maintenance costs are high, medical treatments needed for affected victims are also high and the country has a loss of human capital (Redelmeier, et al., 2003, pp.2177-2182). Epidemiological approach measures how incidences like road accidents results to negative health. Negative health involves injuries, trauma and subsequent reduction of an individual’s capacity to perform everyday activities. Victims of road accidents experiences severe body damages which eventually reduce their capabilities to perform normally. Those whose body parts have been impaired find it difficult to contribute relative to their earlier performances.