Abstract

MOSQUERA BETANCOURT, Gretel. Senior Citizens Craniocerebral Trauma Management: a Comprehensive Approach based on the Science-Technology- Society relation. Rev Hum Med [online]. 2008, vol.8, n.2-3, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1727-8120.

This research is a thoughtful analysis of the different factors that play a role in the high morbidity and mortality of senior citizens due to craniocerebral trauma. Its main objective is to provide a careful analysis of this condition from the perspective of the Science-Technology-Society approach, as well as to support the necessity of an organizational project of technologic innovation that promotes its comprehensive management. The socio-environmental factors, which play the most important role in the occurrence of craniocerebral trauma and can be modified in the community, are described. Finally, the genesis of a comprehensive approach to its management is argumented from the perspective of the Science-Technology-Society approach, which can successfully deal with this disorder by achieving an appropriate interrelation among the different levels of medical attention. In this way, an innovative approach to senior citizens craniocerebral trauma management is presented.

Keywords : Craniocerebral trauma; Senior Citizen; Risk factors; Science-technology- society.

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