Characterization of victims of aggression and transportation accidents treated at the Forensic Medicine and Dentistry Institute - Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil - 2010

The objective of this cross-sectional census study was to characterize agression and land-based transport accidents in a city in the Northeast of Brazil. Data was analyzed from live victims who were treated at a forensic service (N = 2.379). In the descriptive analysis, the majority of events were r...

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Main Authors: Sergio d'Avila, Ana Cristina Campos, Gigliana Maria Sobral Cavalcante, Carlos Jose de Paula Silva, Lorena Marques da Nóbrega, Efigenia Ferreira e Ferreira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva 2015-03-01
Series:Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-81232015000300887&lng=en&tlng=en