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0675/2012 - External causes in adolescents: visits at sentinel urgency and emergency services in the Brazilian State Capitals – 2009
Causas externas em adolescentes: atendimentos em serviços sentinelas de urgência e emergência nas Capitais Brasileiras – 2009

Author:

• Deborah Carvalho Malta - Deborah Carvalho Malta - Brasília - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais e Ministério da Saúde - <dcmalta@uol.com.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8214-5734

Co-author(s):

• Márcio Dênis Medeiros Mascarenhas - Mascarenhas, DMM - Coordenação Geral de Vigilância de Doenças e Agravos Não Transmissíveis (CGDANT), Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde (SVS), Ministério da Saúde (MS), Brasília - <Márcio D M Mascarenhas;>
• Regina Tomie Ivata Bernal - Bernal, RTI - Faculdade de Saúde Pública, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo-SP - <Regina Tomie Ivata Bernal;>
• Silvania Suely Caribé de A. Andrade - Andrade, SSC - Faculdade de Saúde Pública, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo-SP - <Silvania Andrade;>
• Alice Cristina Medeiros das Neves - Neves, ACM - 1Coordenação Geral de Vigilância de Doenças e Agravos Não Transmissíveis (CGDANT), Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde (SVS), Ministério da Saúde (MS), Brasília-DF; - <Alice Cristina Medeiros;>
• Elza Machado de Melo - Melo, EM - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte-MG - <elzamelo@medicina.ufmg.br;>
• Jarbas Barbosa da Silva Junior - Silva Jr, JB - Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde (SVS), Ministério da Saúde (MS), Brasília-DF - <jarbas.barbosa@saude.gov.br;>

Thematic Area:

Epidemiologia

Abstract:

Adolescent are looking for new references and experiences, which may imply attitudes of risk and exposure to external causes – accidents and violence. These events constitute a serious Public Health problem. The purpose of this study was to analyze the occurrence of external causes in adolescents from 10 to 19 years of age seen at sentinel urgency and emergency services in Brazil. Data from the Violence and Accident Surveillance Survey 2009 (VIVA 2009) was analyzed in 74 emergency units in 23 state capitals and the Federal District. The finding has shown that 6,434 (89.8%) adolescents were victims of accidents and 730 (10.2 %) of violence. The main causes of the accidents were falls and traffic accidents, in violence, assaults were preeminent. For accidents as well as for violence the adolescents of the male sex and race/color nonwhite were preeminent, the events were most frequent in the streets. The increase was the most frequent evolution, with hospitalization in victims of violence between 15 and 19 years of age. To know the epidemiological reality of external causes among adolescents represent an important tool for prevention and health promotion policies and the culture of peace in view of reducing morbidity and mortality.

Keywords:

Adolescence, external causes, violence, injury, survey, surveillance

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Deborah Carvalho Malta, Mascarenhas, DMM, Bernal, RTI, Andrade, SSC, Neves, ACM, Melo, EM, Silva Jr, JB. External causes in adolescents: visits at sentinel urgency and emergency services in the Brazilian State Capitals – 2009. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2012/Jul). [Citado em 21/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/external-causes-in-adolescents-visits-at-sentinel-urgency-and-emergency-services-in-the-brazilian-state-capitals-2009/10552?id=10552



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