Método aplicado en la disminución de accidentes de tránsito en el cantón Loja
In urban and rural areas of Loja, in 2014, 1716 traffic accidents occurred, 96% by human cause, generating 31 deaths and 386 people injured. Many people might think that these incidents were unavoidable and unpredictable events, however, it has been show that traffic accidents are the result of an a...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | Ecuador |
| Recursos: | Universidad Internacional del Ecuador |
| Repositorio: | Repositorio Universidad Internacional del Ecuador |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.uide.edu.ec:37000/3535 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://doi.org/10.33890/innova.v2.n5.2017.150 https://repositorio.uide.edu.ec/handle/37000/3535 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | accidentes de tránsito; reducción de accidentes; seguridad vial; investigación acción traffic accidents; reducing accidents; road safety; action research |
| Resumo: | In urban and rural areas of Loja, in 2014, 1716 traffic accidents occurred, 96% by human cause, generating 31 deaths and 386 people injured. Many people might think that these incidents were unavoidable and unpredictable events, however, it has been show that traffic accidents are the result of an avoidable failure and to some extent predictable, which generates the need to combat this problem by running founded on a scientific method activities, as the case of the method called "Research -Action". The research method comprises the analysis of the causes and strategies applied to the patterns of occurrence collected between the years of study, during which, the prevention actions were executed according to the results of the statistics of previous years. As a result of the work carried out in Loja, a reduction of traffic accidents was achieved, with a total of 944 accidents occurring in 2015 and 526 accidents in 2016, decreasing mortality and morbidity rates, this shows the effectiveness of the method called action research and evaluates the strategies of action according to the predominant causes. |
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