PMID- 3704873
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19860606
LR  - 20221207
IS  - 0256-9574 (Print)
VI  - 69
IP  - 9
DP  - 1986 Apr 26
TI  - Deaths from accidents, poisoning and violence--differences between the various 
      population groups in the RSA.
PG  - 556-8
AB  - The pattern of deaths from accidents, poisoning and violence of the four 
      population groups in the RSA for 1980 was examined in terms of the number of male 
      and female deaths, separately and together, of certain WHO International 
      Classification of Diseases (ICD) groupings of deaths from those causes. The main 
      findings were: (i) that motor vehicle accidents (MVAs) accounted for 3.6% of all 
      deaths in whites, 3.7% in coloureds, 3.1% in Asians and 2.2% in blacks, male 
      deaths being 4 times as frequent as female and more than 70% of those deaths 
      occurring in people under 40 years; 6% of MVAs in whites, 38% in coloureds, 17% 
      in Asians and 34% in blacks involved pedestrians; (ii) that the next most common 
      cause of death under these ICD headings was suicide in whites (1.6% of total) and 
      homicide in coloureds (4.8% of total) and blacks (3.9% of total); and (iii) that 
      under the ICD grouping 'other accidents', 45% of those deaths in whites, 58% in 
      coloureds, 79% in Asians and 36% in blacks were due to drowning, with over 80% of 
      deaths from drowning in people under 40 years.
FAU - Wyndham, C H
AU  - Wyndham CH
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - South Africa
TA  - S Afr Med J
JT  - South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde
JID - 0404520
SB  - IM
MH  - *Accidents
MH  - Accidents, Occupational
MH  - Accidents, Traffic
MH  - Adult
MH  - Black or African American
MH  - Age Factors
MH  - Black People
MH  - Drowning/mortality
MH  - Female
MH  - Fires
MH  - Homicide/mortality
MH  - Humans
MH  - India/ethnology
MH  - Male
MH  - Mortality
MH  - Poisoning/*mortality
MH  - South Africa
MH  - Suicide/mortality
MH  - *Violence
MH  - White People
EDAT- 1986/04/26 00:00
MHDA- 1986/04/26 00:01
CRDT- 1986/04/26 00:00
PHST- 1986/04/26 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1986/04/26 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1986/04/26 00:00 [entrez]
PST - ppublish
SO  - S Afr Med J. 1986 Apr 26;69(9):556-8.