{"id":1324,"date":"2013-12-03T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T08:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2013-12-03T09:05:03","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T08:05:03","slug":"public-and-political-perception-of-risk-injury-prevention-implications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2013\/12\/03\/public-and-political-perception-of-risk-injury-prevention-implications\/","title":{"rendered":"Public and political perception of risk: Injury prevention implications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately in Australia in the last week, two men have died as a result of shark bites. The media response, which by no means is unique in these cases, has been overwhelming, with responses ranging from\u00a0the call to\u00a0kill the offending sharks (despite protestations of the family, for example see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2013-12-01\/search-for-shark-that-killed-bodyboarder-zac-young\/5127228\">http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2013-12-01\/search-for-shark-that-killed-bodyboarder-zac-young\/5127228<\/a>),\u00a0and increasing the range\u00a0of shark netting (despite the widespread death of other sea creatures, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/environment\/marine-ecologists-urge-rethink-of-shark-netting-after-fatal-attack-20131202-2ym2x.html\">http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/environment\/marine-ecologists-urge-rethink-of-shark-netting-after-fatal-attack-20131202-2ym2x.html<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately in Queensland, Australia, in the last year, 252 people have died as a result of a road crash. Using crude maths, this is nearly five people a week in one\u00a0state alone. The media response, which by no means is unique in each of these cases, has been underwhelming. The names, locations, circumstances,\u00a0perspectives of family members, political and policy responses remain unknown for these five people.<\/p>\n<p>As an Australian, I know the details of each shark death. As a Queenslander, I know no details of each road death.<\/p>\n<p>Coming from a\u00a0social psychology\u00a0epistemology\u00a0as I\u00a0work in injury prevention, I find this huge disconnect alarming. Is it that we are used to people being killed in a road crash? Is it that a\u00a0road crash is\u00a0a less scary way to die, when compared to being bitten\u00a0by a shark? Even in the Decade of Action for Road Safety, and in comparison to the shark-related deaths, the story of these latest five people remains unknown, the media remain relatively silent, politicians remain unswayed, policy and practice remains unchanged, and the systemic risks which contributed to these deaths remain unidentified and unchallenged.<\/p>\n<p>How do injury prevention professionals move forward? I remain perplexed, but I am tenacious and will persist in my determination to keep young driver road safety on the agenda and actually reduce their toll of injury and death.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately in Australia in the last week, two men have died as a result of shark bites. The media response, which by no means is unique in these cases, has been overwhelming, with responses ranging from\u00a0the call to\u00a0kill the offending sharks (despite protestations of the family, for example see http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2013-12-01\/search-for-shark-that-killed-bodyboarder-zac-young\/5127228),\u00a0and increasing the range\u00a0of shark netting [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2013\/12\/03\/public-and-political-perception-of-risk-injury-prevention-implications\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2730,1141,1574,2632,2724,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motor-vehicle-crashes","category-news","category-offbeat","category-policy-making","category-splinters-fragments","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Public and political perception of risk: Injury prevention implications - Injury Prevention: Editor&#039;s Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2013\/12\/03\/public-and-political-perception-of-risk-injury-prevention-implications\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Public and political perception of risk: Injury prevention implications - Injury Prevention: Editor&#039;s Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Unfortunately in Australia in the last week, two men have died as a result of shark bites. 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