**7. Acknowledgment**

I would like to acknowledge to the Engineer Tomás Suárez Enriquez by their teaching and dedication to road traffic prevention activities. Dr. Francisco Gutierrez García and RN Rosa Peña Sandoval for their cooperation in research during the conduction of Villa Clara project. Lic. Adolfo Gomez Calá for their assistance in translation and correction of this paper.

#### **8. References**

Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular (2010). Ley No. 109 Código de Seguridad Vial. *Gaceta Oficial de la República de Cuba. Edición Ordinaria* , No. 40, (17 de septiembre de 2010), ISSN 1682-7511.

1. Precise information about this health problem, obtained by means of scientific research and analysis of information, is essential to define the priorities of these problems for their prevention and control. (Borse & Hyder, 2009). Still when is included in the strategies and national programs of prevention, research published on the topic in biomedical journals, included peer review journals, could be considered insufficient. Also, like we mention previously, they approach clinical aspects related with those injured during traffic accidents, while investigations focused to identification of risks

2. Methodology of medical evaluation of drivers. It is required a revision of this methodology and bring up to date in correspondence with the new evidences. 3. Prevention and control of traffic accidents related with drinking and driving. Since this constitutes a relevance factor related with accidents and its severity, bigger emphasis is required in its control by means of the application of procedures that have

4. Strengthen the intersector actions directed in a national strategic plan for prevention of

Still when traffic accidents have had in Cuba a tendency to decrease in recent years, they continue being a major health problem when constituting the fourth cause of years of potential life lost, besides an impact in healthcare in relation to the attention of those injured and the disabilities, that which additionally generates important economic lost for society. Evident potentialities exist for the prevention of traffic accidents, superior to the main causes of Cuban population's death, that which can be achieved by means of the consolidation of prevention program prevention with the introduction of more recent

I would like to acknowledge to the Engineer Tomás Suárez Enriquez by their teaching and dedication to road traffic prevention activities. Dr. Francisco Gutierrez García and RN Rosa Peña Sandoval for their cooperation in research during the conduction of Villa Clara project. Lic. Adolfo Gomez Calá for their assistance in translation and correction of this paper.

Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular (2010). Ley No. 109 Código de Seguridad Vial. *Gaceta* 

*Oficial de la República de Cuba. Edición Ordinaria* , No. 40, (17 de septiembre de 2010),

and to demonstrate the effectiveness of prevention practices were scarce.

demonstrated its effectiveness (e.g. Sobriety Checkpoint) (Shults RA, 2001)

**5. Future research and development activities** 

traffic accidents.

evidence about this topic.

**7. Acknowledgment** 

**8. References** 

ISSN 1682-7511.

**6. Conclusion** 

d. An element highlighted in the practical application of medical exams constitutes the non systematic application of valid methods for diagnosis of alcoholism. 9. The national program of accidents in Cuba is sustained fundamentally in intersector actions by means of the participation of the Ministries of the Interior, Public Health, Transport, Culture and other non government organization and state organisms (fig. 8).


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**Part 2** 

**Disease Management** 


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