Urban violence is the biggest cause of fatal work-related accidents in Brazil

• Main Authors: Ricardo Cordeiro (Author), Verônica Gronau Luz (Author), Élida Azevedo Hennington (Author), Ana Cláudia Alves Martins (Author), Luís Fernando Tófoli (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo, 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To quantify the occurrence of deaths directly associated with urban violence among fatal work-related accidents. METHODS Verbal autopsies were performed with the relatives and coworkers of residents of Campinas, state of São Paulo, Brazil, who died from external causes in 2015. W...