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| Selma Maffei de AndradeSummaryAffiliation: Universidade Estadual de Londrina Country: Brazil Publications
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[Characteristics of the victims of traffic accidents in a city of the southern region of Brazil]S M Andrade
Departamento Materno Infantil e Saúde Comunitária, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Brasil
Rev Saude Publica 34:149-56. 2000..To evaluate the magnitude of morbidity and mortality and describe some of the characteristics of road accident victims...
[Road accidents in a city in southern Brazil]S M Andrade
Departmento Materno Infantil e Saúde Comunitária, Universidade Estadul de Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brasil
Rev Saude Publica 35:318-20. 2001..4%) and pedestrians who were injured by lorries or buses (22.2%), in comparison with a mean fatality rate of 1.8%. This information may provide a basis for the implementation of public policies aiming at reducing accidents...
[Traffic accidents in a city in Southern Brazil: an evaluation of coverage and quality of data]S M Andrade
Departamento Materno Infantil e Saúde Comunitária, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, PR, 86020 071, Brasil
Cad Saude Publica 17:1449-56. 2001..40), and substantial for emergency records (Kappa coefficient 0.63; 95% CI: 0.61-0.65). Results suggest that police data underestimate the number of traffic casualties and that it is necessary to improve the validity of medical records...
[Risky behavior for traffic accidents: a survey among medical students in Southern Brazil]Selma Maffei de Andrade
Centro de Ciencias da Saude, Departamento de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, PR
Rev Assoc Med Bras 49:439-44. 2003..Traffic accidents are one of the most frequent cause of mortality among Brazilian youths. Therefore, this study aimed at detecting the prevalence of risk factors for such accidents in a young population...
Seat belt and helmet use among victims of traffic accidents in a city of Southern Brazil, 1997-2000Y G L Bastos
Department of Public Health, State University of Londrina, Rua Robert Koch, 60-86.038-440 Londrina, Paran, Brazil
Public Health 119:930-2. 2005
[Living conditions and infant mortality in the State of Paraná, Brazil, 1997/2001]Selma Maffei de Andrade
Centro de Ciencias da Saude, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Brazil
Cad Saude Publica 22:181-9. 2006..However, there is a need of complementary studies that aim to clarify the causes of similar neonatal mortality rates observed in the richest and in the poorest cluster of municipalities...
Road injury-related mortality in a medium-sized Brazilian city after some preventive interventionsSelma Maffei de Andrade
State University of Londrina, Londrina, Parana, Brazil
Traffic Inj Prev 9:450-5. 2008..The present study had the aim of evaluating the trends and characteristics of mortality due to this cause among the inhabitants of a medium-sized Brazilian city that has good-quality mortality data...
