La muerte violenta de menores de 18 años en Costa Rica en el 2010 / The violent death of children under 18 years in Costa Rica in 2010
Med. leg. Costa Rica
; 31(1): 3-22, ene.-mar. 2014. graf, tab
Article
in Spanish
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RESUMEN
La motivación de este trabajo es la preponderancia de conocer el estado en que nos encontramos con respecto al peor resultado posible de la violencia infantil en Costa Rica (muerte) con el fin de facilitar el trabajo de creación de políticas de salud que protejan a una población con la garantía constitucional de dicha protección. Obtuvimos que la incidencia costarricense de muerte violenta en menores de 18 años durante el año 2010 fue de 12.31 por cada 100 mil habitantes menores de edad y de 3.72 por cada 100 mil habitantes del país. Además es destacable que se encontró una incidencia elevada en los extremos etarios (0-1 y 16-17), en varones, a principio de año, causado por asfixia o accidente de tránsito y en la provincia de San José.
ABSTRACT
Our motivation was to know the prevalence of the condition in which we find to be the worst possible outcome of violence against children in Costa Rica death, to facilitate the work of creating health policies that protect this population with a constitutional guarantee of special protection. We obtained that the Costa Rican incidence of violent death under age 18 in 2010 was 12.31 per 100 000 children and 3.72 per 100 000 inhabitants. It is also remarkable that a high incidence was found in the age extremes (0-1 and 16-17), in men, early in the year, caused by asphyxia or accident and in the province of San José.
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Collection:
International databases
Health context:
SDG3 - Health and Well-Being
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SDG3 - Target 3.2 Reduce avoidable death in newborns and children under 5
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SDG3 - Target 3.6 Reduce deaths and the trauma caused by road accidents
Health problem:
Target 3.6: Reduce deaths and the trauma caused by road accidents
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Target 3.2: Reduce avoidable death in newborns and children under 5
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Environmental Health
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Road Safety Policies
Database:
LILACS
Main subject:
Policy Making
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Child Abuse, Sexual
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Child Abuse
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Public Health
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Costa Rica
Type of study:
Risk factors
Aspects:
Social determinants of health
Limits:
Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Country/Region as subject:
Central America
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Costa Rica
Language:
Spanish
Journal:
Med. leg. Costa Rica
Journal subject:
Jurisprudence
Year:
2014
Document type:
Article