Lack of Seat Belt Use Among Minorities a ‘Health Crisis’ in Massachusetts

“On the heels of landmark healthcare reform legislation in Massachusetts establishing a commission to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities, national experts from Meharry Medical College/the Meharry-State Farm Alliance will visit Beacon Hill tomorrow with a strong message to state legislators: Massachusetts is needlessly spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to provide long-term healthcare while its minority citizens are killed or injured at the mercy of the state’s most preventable cause of death: low rates of seatbelt usage.

“What we’re facing is a real public health crisis, not only in Massachusetts, but across the nation,” said Irwin Goldzweig of the Meharry-State Farm Alliance, a nationally renowned seatbelt compliance advocacy, research and education organization housing the nation’s only comprehensive minority seatbelt compliance database. “For the last four years we have been compiling scientific evidence proving that primary seatbelt legislation decreases disparities in seatbelt usage and therefore in preventable death and injury among minority populations. Massachusetts is clearly behind the curve when it comes to addressing this issue.”"

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