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Traumatic brain injury in Latin America and the Caribbean: a call for research

Puvanachandra P, Hyder AA

Language: English
References: 11
Page: 3-5
PDF size: 110.34 Kb.


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Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a critical public health problem affecting more than 10 million people worldwide and is set to surpass many diseases as the leading cause of mortality and morbidity by the year 2020. The burden of this often neglected injury disproportionately affects low and middle income countries (LMICs) which face not only a higher preponderance of risk factors for TBI but also have less developed health systems to deal with the associated health outcomes. Thus, both the incidence of TBI and the case-fatality from TBI can be high and devastating.


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