Publications by authors named "Josep M Suelves Joanxich"
Objective: Data on drownings tend to underestimate mortality from this cause. The objective of this study was to describe fatal drownings recorded in Catalonia between 2019 and 2022 through forensic sources, present their characteristics, and assess the utility of this information for monitoring drowning mortality.
Methods: A retrospective observational study based on the register of judicial deaths from the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences of Catalonia was carried out.
Objective: Accidental falls are a growing public health problem. The objective was to describe the characteristics of deaths due to accidental falls in people over 65 from the forensic source.
Methods: Descriptive observational study of deceased at over 65 undergoing judicial autopsy in Tarragona between the years 2013-2017 whose basic cause of death was coded as accidental fall (W00-W19 of the International Classification of Diseases - 10th edition).
Objective: Few recent studies have researched into the size and trends of the impact of tobacco use on productivity losses. The objective of this work was to describe the percentage of episodes and non work-related sick leave days with a duration over 5 days due to tobacco use in Catalonia in the period 2007-2016 in relation to the total sick-leave episodes and sick leave days in patients aged 35-64.
Methods: Descriptive study of 3,627,107 episodes and 237,219,230 days in sick-leave by any cause, except those work-related, in workers aged 35-64.