Neighborhood and postal worker characteristics associated with dog bites in postal workers of the Brazilian National Postal Service in Curitiba Características do bairro e de carteiros associadas com mordidas de cães em trabalhadores postais dos Correios em Curitiba

Neighborhood and postal worker characteristics associated with dog bites in postal workers of the Brazilian National Postal Service in Curitiba Características do bairro e de carteiros associadas com mordidas de cães em trabalhadores postais dos Correios em Curitiba

Dog bites are the third most common cause of absenteeism among postal workers of the Brazilian National Postal Service in Southern Brazil, with an average off-work time of approximately two days for each biting episode. The objective of this study was to evaluate the neighborhood characteristics inv...

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Main Authors: Henrique Larsen Brunow Ventura, Leandro Nagae Kuritza, Priscila Cavalheiro Marcenovicz, Gisela Braune, Rose Maria Manosso, Eduardo Alexandre de Oliveira, Igor Adolfo Dexheimer Paploski, Mariana Kikuti, Alexander Welker Biondo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva 2013-05-01
Series:Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
Subjects:
Mordidas de cães
Saúde pública
Zoonoses
Dog bites
Public health
Zoonosis
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