Elderly patients attended in emergency health services in Brazil: a study for victims of falls and traffic accidents
The article aims to describe the profile of elderly victims of falls and traffic accidents from the data of the Surveillance Survey of Violence and Accidents (VIVA). The VIVA Survey was conducted in the emergency health-services of the Unified Health System in the capitals of Brazil in 2011. The sam...
Main Authors: | Mariana Gonçalves de Freitas, Palmira de Fátima Bonolo, Edgar Nunes de Moraes, Carla Jorge Machado |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Associação Brasileira de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva
2015-03-01
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Series: | Ciência & Saúde Coletiva |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-81232015000300701&lng=en&tlng=en |
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