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Traffic Injury Prevention Volume 13, 2012 - Issue sup1: Public Health Burden of Road Traffic Injuries: An Assessment from Ten Low and Middle Income Countries
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Road Traffic Deaths in Brazil: Rising Trends in Pedestrian and Motorcycle Occupant Deaths

Aruna Chandran Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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Tanara Rosângela Vieira Sousa Center for Drug and Alcohol Research, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
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Yayi Guo Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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David Bishai Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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Flavio Pechansky Center for Drug and Alcohol Research, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
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The Vida No Transito Evaluation Team
Pages 11-16 | Received 13 Jul 2011, Accepted 16 Oct 2011, Published online: 13 Mar 2012

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