TY - GEN AU - Diez-Roux, Esteban AU - Bhalla, Kavi TI - Cost of Traffic Injuries in Latin America PY - 2012 Y1 - 2012/06/20 DO - 10.18235/0006934 AB - This presentation was given by Esteban Diez-Roux and Kavi Bahlla at the Ibero-American Road Safety Conference (CISEV) which took place in Bogota, Colombia in June, 2012. This presentation describes how the high rate of traffic accidents in Latin America places a burden on economies in the region. The authors present the methods and results of a study which assigns a monetary cost to these deaths and injuries as a percent of GDP. The presentation ends with conclusions and implications. UR - https://doi.org/10.18235/0006934 ER -