Visitors to VIP web site on the rise
In 2011, nearly 800,000 individuals visited the homepage of VIP's web site, making for an average of nearly 2,200 unique daily visitors. The pages for the Global status report on road safety,the World report on violence and health, and the World report on disability remain among the most popular, in addition to the topical pages on these issues.
Among the most downloaded documents were summaries of the World report on violence and health (in Spanish and English), the World report on road traffic injury prevention (in English), and the World report on disability (in English and Spanish). Among other more recently published documents, the most popular were Mobile phone use: a growing problem of driver distraction, Preventing intimate partner and sexual violence against women, and Guidelines on the provision of manual wheelchairs in less-resourced settings.
In 2011 visitors came from the following countries in rank order, among others: the United States, China, the United Kingdom, India, Netherlands, Singapore, Canada, France, Australia and Japan. VIP will more regularly monitor its web statistics in order to further improve its web site to better serve visitors.
For further information, please contact Ms Jelica Vesic (vesicj@who.int).