PMID- 3704874
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19860606
LR  - 20221207
IS  - 0256-9574 (Print)
VI  - 69
IP  - 9
DP  - 1986 Apr 26
TI  - Cause- and age-specific mortality rates from accidents, poisoning and violence.
PG  - 559-62
AB  - Cause- and age-specific mortality rates (MRs) were calculated for 1980 for all 
      four population groups in the RSA for certain accidents, poisonings and violence 
      as they are grouped in the WHO International Classification of Diseases (ICD). 
      Cause-specific MRs of coloureds, Asians and blacks were age-adjusted to the 
      age-distribution of whites in 1980 in order to judge the relative importance of 
      the various causes of death. This showed that in whites and Asians motor vehicle 
      accidents (MVAs) head the rank order of MRs; furthermore the first three MRs in 
      the rank order, namely for MVAs, suicide and violence, are common in these two 
      populations. A similar situation exists among coloureds and blacks in that the 
      MRs for homicide rank first and the first four causes of death in the rank order 
      of MRs--homicide, MVAs, violence and other accidents--are common to those two 
      population groups. The fact that deaths from MVAs and violence rank so high in 
      the MRs for all four population groups lends support to the contention that the 
      RSA is a 'violent society'.
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, Traffic
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Black or African American
MH  - Age Factors
MH  - Aged
MH  - Black People
MH  - Child
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - Drowning/mortality
MH  - Fires
MH  - Homicide/mortality
MH  - Humans
MH  - India/ethnology
MH  - Infant
MH  - Middle Aged
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):559-62.