%0 Journal Article
%T Caracter¨ªsticas dos acidentes de transito e das v¨ªtimas atendidas em servi£¿o pr¨¦-hospitalar em cidade do Sul do Brasil, 1997/2000
%A Bastos
%A Yara Gerber Lima
%A Andrade
%A Selma Maffei de
%A Soares
%A Darli Ant£¿nio
%J Cadernos de Sa¨²de P¨²blica
%D 2005
%I Escola Nacional de Sa¨²de P¨²blica, Funda??o Oswaldo Cruz
%R 10.1590/S0102-311X2005000300015
%X traffic accidents and the resulting injury and trauma constitute an important social and public health problem. the objective of this study was to analyze the characteristics of such accidents and the victims treated by the only pre-hospital service - the integrated trauma and emergency aid service (siate) - in the city of londrina, paran¨¢ state, southern brazil, from 1997 to 2000. all victims (14,474) registered in the siate database were studied. the majority (> 70.0%) were male and aged 10 to 39 years. motorcyclists were the most frequent victims (> 40.0%), and accidents occurred most frequently in december, on weekends (especially saturdays), and at night. these results are consistent with those of other studies showing the need to implement preventive measures targeting young males, especially motorcyclists.
%K traffic accidents
%K health services
%K emergency medical services.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0102-311X2005000300015&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en