A cost-benefit analysis of legislation for bicycle safety helmets in Israel

Legislation requiring bicyclists to wear helmets in Israel will, over a helmet's 5-year duration save approximately 57 lives and result in approximately 2544 few hospitalizations... Total benefits ($60.7 million) from reductions in health service use ($44.2 million), work absences ($7.5million) land mortality ($8.9million) would exceed program costs ($20.1million) resulting in a benfit-cost ratio of 3.01:1.