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The body count : using routine mortality surveillance data to drive violence prevention
Includes bibliographical references.
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Department of Public Health and Family Medicine
2015
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| author | Matzopoulos, Richard |
| author2 | Myers, J E |
| author_browse | Matzopoulos, Richard Myers, J E |
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| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/12645 The body count : using routine mortality surveillance data to drive violence prevention Matzopoulos, Richard Myers, J E Thompson, Mary Lou Public Health and Family Medicine Includes bibliographical references. This thesis describes the conceptualisation, development and implementation of a mortuary-based system for the routine collection of information about homicide. It traces the evolution of the system from its conceptualisation in 1994, through various iterations as a city-level research tool, to a national sentinel system pilot, as a multicity all-injury surveillance system, and finally its institutionalisation as a provincial injury mortality surveillance system in the Western Cape. In so doing, it demonstrates that the data arising from medico-legal post-mortem investigations described in this thesis were an important source of descriptive epidemiological information on homicide. The 37,037 homicide records described in the thesis were drawn from Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth and Pretoria, for which the surveillance system maintained full coverage from 2001 to 2005. The aim was to apply more complex statistical analysis and modelling than had been applied previously. 2015-04-02T13:59:51Z 2015-04-02T13:59:51Z 2012 Doctoral Thesis Doctoral PhD http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12645 eng application/pdf Department of Public Health and Family Medicine Faculty of Health Sciences University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Public Health and Family Medicine Matzopoulos, Richard The body count : using routine mortality surveillance data to drive violence prevention |
| thesis_degree_str | Doctoral |
| title | The body count : using routine mortality surveillance data to drive violence prevention |
| title_full | The body count : using routine mortality surveillance data to drive violence prevention |
| title_fullStr | The body count : using routine mortality surveillance data to drive violence prevention |
| title_full_unstemmed | The body count : using routine mortality surveillance data to drive violence prevention |
| title_short | The body count : using routine mortality surveillance data to drive violence prevention |
| title_sort | body count using routine mortality surveillance data to drive violence prevention |
| topic | Public Health and Family Medicine |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12645 |
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