World Health Day 2004: road safety

On 7 April 2004 around the globe, hundreds of organizations hosted events to help raise awareness about road traffic injuries, their grave consequences and enormous costs to society. They also contributed to spreading the word that such injuries can be prevented.

WORLD HEALTH DAY VIDEOS World Health Day is celebrated annually on the 7th of April. The theme for World Health Day 2004 is road safety. Audiovisual gallery World Health Day celebration in Paris [rm] Interview with Kofi Annan [mpg 31Mb] | [rm] WHO Director-General LEE Jong-wook [mpg 42Mb] | [rm] WHD 2004 montage [mpg 96Mb] | [rm] Video gallery help

WORLD REPORT The World Health Organization and the World Bank have jointly produced the World report on road traffic injury prevention. Full text Download summary Arabic [pdf 742kb] Chinese [pdf 1.91Mb] English [pdf 2.03Mb] French [pdf 511kb] Russian [pdf 715kb] Spanish [pdf 1.17Mb]

Director-General's speech
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's message on World Health Day
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Road safety feature
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Audio visual gallery on road safety
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Road safety posters

BBC coverage of World Health Day
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Sites of the WHO Regional Offices
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Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention
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