Citation

Ginsberg GM, Silverberg DS. Am. J. Public Health 1994; 84(4): 653-656.

Affiliation

Department of Data Analysis, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, American Public Health Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8154573

PMCID

PMC1614783

Abstract

Legislation requiring bicyclists to wear helmets in Israel will, over a helmet's 5-year duration (assuming 85% compliancy, 83.2% helmet efficiency for morbidity, and 70% helmet efficiency for mortality), save approximately 57 lives and result in approximately 2,544 fewer hospitalizations; 13,355 and 26,634 fewer emergency room and ambulatory visits, respectively; and 832 and 115 fewer short-term and long-term rehabilitation cases, respectively. Total benefits ($60.7 million) from reductions in health service use ($44.2 million), work absences ($7.5 million), and mortality ($8.9 million) would exceed program costs ($20.1 million), resulting in a benefit-cost ratio of 3.01:1.