Civil Society And Road Safety. Part Iii

While civil society becomes more important in the development of the life of a nation is no less true that the complexity of its structure, very heterogeneous, it is very vulnerable due to lack of funding, its value may be explained, given the situation discredited political parties, many politicians in the exercise of political power and weaknesses of the state being unable to meet their own objectives functions, the aforementioned vulnerability, makes the social groups that form civil society, many of them are capable being permeated by stakeholders; reason somehow lose credibility and substance. However, they have been gaining ground, say a growing area that has led to political parties seen with suspicion in some cases to the Civil Society.

In fact, there are tangible experiences in countries of South America, where its influence becomes so enormous that have produced shifts in dominant parties in a given time. Civil Society on many occasions participates in the health sector, preventive management system, does so in relation to the environment, public safety, educationally, in terms of women, children and adolescents, respect for human rights, overcoming of poverty, rescuing the ethical and patriotic values, etc., etc. Road safety is a form of violence, considered potentially pandemic, so it is now handled by international bodies, such as a public health problem that is causing poverty questionable citizenship affecting national economies and the Emotional estabilibidad million families. In the Dominican Republic accident rates in 2009 were higher than those of 2008. And those of 2008 were above those of 2007, in turn, these indicators, the higher of 2006.

So, we are in a spiral where the rate of mortality and morbidity rates per 100,000 population will increase if no involvement from organized social groups to demand appropriate public policies in order to stop this wave of violence on our streets, avenues and highways as a result of traffic accidents. This means an aspect of security, with complex causes multifactorial and multisectoral solutions. So the problem must be very particular and certain levels of autotomy. Mario Holguin / Dominican Republic will found.

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