Brief Analysis on Violence against Children and Adolescents
Journal Title: Journal of Quality in Health Care & Economics (JQHE) - Year 2018, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
In 2015, violence was the cause of more than 82 thousand deaths of children and adolescents in the same 10 to 19 age group, of which 24.5 thousand were in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Pericles Arruda D*
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