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The Importance of Poisoning vs. Road Traffic Injuries as a Cause of Death in Rural Sri Lanka
BACKGROUND: Road traffic crashes are considered by the WHO to be the most important global cause of death from injury. However, this may not be true for large areas of rural Asia where road vehicles are uncommon. The issue is important, since emphasising the importance of road traffic crashes risks...
Autores principales: | Eddleston, Michael, Udayakumara, Nilantha, Adhikari, Sriyantha, de Silva, Dhamika, Sheriff, M. H. Rezvi, Waidyaratne, Dhananjaya L. |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2007
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1904253/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17622344 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000599 |
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