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SUBMITTER: Malta DC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7525968 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Malta Deborah Carvalho DC Soares Filho Adauto Martins AM Pinto Isabella Vitral IV de Souza Minayo Maria Cecília MC Lima Cheila Marina CM Machado Ísis Eloah ÍE Teixeira Renato Azeredo RA Neto Otaliba Libânio Morais OLM Ladeira Roberto Marini RM Merchan-Hamann Edgar E de Souza Maria de Fatima Marinho MFM Vasconcelos Cíntia Honório CH Vidotti Carlos Cezar Flores CCF Cousin Ewerton E Glenn Scott S Bisignano Catherine C Chew Adrienne A Ribeiro Antonio Luiz AL Naghavi Mohsen M
Population health metrics 20200930 Suppl 1
<h4>Background</h4>Brazil leads the world in number of firearm deaths and ranks sixth by country in rate of firearm deaths per 100,000 people. This study aims to analyze trends in and burden of mortality by firearms, according to age and sex, for Brazil, and the association between these deaths and indicators of possession and carrying of weapons using data from the global burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors study (GBD) 2017.<h4>Methods</h4>We used GBD 2017 estimates of mortality due ...[more]