It is known that intentional injuries, confusingly misnamed "accidents" are a major public health problem by the enormous burden of morbidity and mortality. Although it remains a health problem only included in surveillance systems, defined as "systematic and continuous collection of data, analysis and interpretation, and dissemination, on a health problem, to be used in the actions of public health to reduce morbidity and mortality and improve health. Injuries resulting from traffic collisions are the only mechanism for which routine information systems are established, most of which come from the field of policing. In Barcelona there is also the police log, an information system based traffic injuries in hospital emergency departments (DUHAT) since 19974. However, there is little routine monitoring systems for injuries caused by other mechanisms. Represent a graphical manner the burden of disease and the severity of the lesions is generated through a pyramid. The base is the number of injuries treated in primary care services and then hospital emergencies. This includes, therefore, less serious injuries but the most common. Above is the number of people hospitalized for injury, which include more serious injuries. And finally, on top of the pyramid, those who died due to injuries, being obviously more serious but less frequently. In general, ...
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LA - es SN - 0212-6567 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aprim.2012.03.009 ID - ref1 ER -