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Original Post Date: 2003-12-30 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 12/30/2003 6:21:02 AM
SA: Shooting Leading Cause of Non-Natural Deaths
[Note. The government likes to say that crime is under control and things are improving. Also, consider that here we are, 10 years after Apartheid and “State Violence” and we find people are working really hard killing each other. Methinks life under Apartheid was much more peaceful. Jan]
Shootings again top the list as the leading cause of non-natural death in South Africa.
The fourth annual report of the National Injury Mortality Surveillance System notes that firearms accounted for 27.8 percent of all non-natural deaths recorded in 2002, a slight increase on the 27.6 percent recorded in 2001. Road deaths were slightly lower at 25 percent of all non-natural deaths.
Firearms, the survey found, were the leading cause of fatal injury for all ages from 15 to 65.
Of the 7 081 deaths recorded, 89 percent were due to homicide, 10 percent suicide and 0.5 percent (32) were accidental.
The figures show that in 2002, homicide and suicide fatalities peaked in December.
They also show a strong association between alcohol and injury, particularly homicides and transport fatalities.
In 2002 more than half of all drivers and nearly 60 percent of pedestrians killed on the country’s roads were under the influence of alcohol. Some 53 percent of homicide victims died under the influence of alcohol.
Detailed information about deaths due to external causes has been missing from the national vital statistics since 1991.
The surveillance system is the beginning of what is hoped will become a national mortuary-based system that captures the who, what, when, where and how of fatal injuries.
The information collected by the survey is intended to provide pointers for improving the prevention and control of injuries and in evaluating the impact of direct (for example gun law enforcement) and indirect (for example socio-economic development) interventions that are expected to reduce some of the major causes of fatal injury.
The fourth annual report covered the period January 1 to December 31, 2002 and described 25 494 fatal injuries that were registered at 34 mortuaries in six provinces.
Estimates for the total number of non-natural fatalities in South Africa range between 70 000 and 80 000 annually, accounting for between 12 percent and 15 percent of all deaths (including those from natural causes).
The data accounted for between 35 percent and 40 percent of all the non-natural deaths in South Africa and is biased towards large urban areas.
Full coverage was achieved in six of South Africa’s largest cities: Cape Town, Durban, East London, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth and Pretoria, which made it possible to calculate inter-city homicide, suicide and transport mortality rates.
The Department of Health and the Crime, Violence and Injury Lead Programme, co-directed by the Medical Research Council and the UNISA Institute for Social and Health Sciences, are exploring the possibility of extending the surveillance system to provide full coverage of all deaths due to injury in South Africa.
The report is available online at www.sahealthinfo.org
Source: AllAfrica.comURL: http://allafrica.com/stories/200312290686.htm…br>