Buckling up is “cool” on Russian island

More people are buckling up when they get in a car on the far eastern island of Sakhalin than anywhere else in the Russian Federation, according to a local partnership that ran a four-year public awareness campaign backed by strict enforcement of national seat belt laws. Dmitry Zelinsky reports.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: World Health Organization 2009
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Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2733275
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19705003
https://doi.org/10.2471/BLT.09.020809
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Summary:More people are buckling up when they get in a car on the far eastern island of Sakhalin than anywhere else in the Russian Federation, according to a local partnership that ran a four-year public awareness campaign backed by strict enforcement of national seat belt laws. Dmitry Zelinsky reports.