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Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz
2002
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- Las lesiones intencionales como causa de demanda de atención en los servicios de urgencia hospitalaria de la ciudad de México Marta Cecilia Híjar Rosario Valdez Rafael Lozano Julia Blanco Medicina violence emergency room Intentional injuries Introduction: oduction: Mexico City enters this century as one of themost populated cities in the world, where difficulties in livingtogether multiply and become deeper, and living conditions havegreatly deteriorated. Also, poverty has become more severe andthis creates an environment where different expressions ofviolence propagate.From the health perspective, the topic of violence as a publichealth problem is relatively recent and has led someinternational organizations to call attention to the social andeconomic cost and to the overload which injuries caused byviolence are producing in the already saturated health systems.Objective: To identify the causes for the demand of attentionat the emergency health care of public hospitals in MexicoCity due to intentional injuries produced by different types ofviolent acts.Methods: A cross-sectional design was used, where theobservational and analytical units were those individuals whodue to intentional injuries demanded medical care at the hospitalemergency services located in different areas of Mexico City... 2002 artículo científico 0185-3325 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=58212506 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=582 Salud Mental application/pdf Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz Salud Mental (México) Num.1 Vol.25