[Accidents, violence and traumatic lesions. A new look at the use and conceptual analysis of the terminology].
One of the barriers that has arisen for the prevention of injuries provoked by accidents and violence has been precisely that of the consideration of these terms as a health problem in and of itself; in actuality, they only constitute the mechanisms through which said injuries arise. At the moment, the usefulness of these terms is based on the fact that they offer the possibility of identifying the injury as either inadvertent of deliberate. Likewise, one of the goals of this work is to reflect upon the problems that arise from the inadequate use of these terms, as well as the implications and limitations of their use. This has had an effect on prevention and on the partial approach to the real cause of this health problem which turns out to be traumatic lesions, one of the prime causes of death and illness in infants, young persons, and the middle age in our country.
Híjar Medina
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Departamento de Riesgos Ocupacionales y Lesiones, Centro de Investigaciones en Salud Pública, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública.
D000059:Accidents; D006801:Humans; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014754:Violence; D014947:Wounds and Injuries
Accidentes, violencias y lesiones traumáticas. Nuevo enfoque para el uso y análisis conceptual de los términos.