Abstract
OBJECTIVE: to perform time-trend analysis of homicide and land transport accident (LTA) mortality in Foz do Iguaçu city, Brazil, 2000-2010.
METHODS: this was a time series study, using Mortality Information System data on people resident in the city; death rates by sex were calculated and standardized by age; Prais-Winsten regression was used.
RESULTS: 3,459 deaths were recorded in the period (881 owing to LTA and 2,578 owing to homicides); the highest homicide mortality rate was 104.6 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2006, whilst for LTA it was 35.9 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2010; LTA and homicide mortality rates showed stability; higher mortality rates were found in the 20-39 age group.
CONCLUSION: the maintenance high homicide and LTA mortality rates point to the need to pay greater attention to these problems.
Translated title of the contribution | Time-trend analysis of homicide and traffic accident mortality in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, 2000-2010 |
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Original language | Portuguese |
Pages (from-to) | 323-330 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Epidemiologia e servicos de saude : revista do Sistema Unico de Saude do Brasil |
Volume | 25 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 1 2016 |
Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Medicine