Análise temporal da mortalidade por homicídios e acidentes de trânsito em Foz do Iguaçu, 2000-2010

Translated title of the contribution: Time-trend analysis of homicide and traffic accident mortality in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, 2000-2010

Gilberto Garcia da Rocha, Bruno Pereira Nunes, Érica Ferreira da Silva, Fernando César Wehrmeister

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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 contributionTime-trend analysis of homicide and traffic accident mortality in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, 2000-2010
Original languagePortuguese
Pages (from-to)323-330
Number of pages8
JournalEpidemiologia e servicos de saude : revista do Sistema Unico de Saude do Brasil
Volume25
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 1 2016
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Medicine

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