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Epidemiology of child injuries in Uganda: challenges for health policy

Globally, 90% of road crash deaths occur in the developing world. Children in Africa bear the major part of this burden, with the highest unintentional injury rates in the world. Our study aims to better understand injury patterns among children living in Kampala, Uganda and provide evidence that in...

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Autores principales:	Hsia, Renee Y., Ozgediz, Doruk, Jayaraman, Sudha, Kyamanywa, Patrick, Mutto, Milton, Kobusingye, Olive C.
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	PAGEPress Publications 2011
Materias:	Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5345474/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28299056 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/jphia.2011.e15

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