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In. Caribbean Public Health Agency. Caribbean Public Health Agency: 60th Annual Scientific Meeting. Kingston, The University of the West Indies. Faculty of Medical Sciences, 2015. p.[1-75]. (West Indian Medical Journal Supplement).
Monografia em Inglês | MedCarib | ID: med-18007

RESUMO

OBJECTIVE: This study investigated whether 1) correlations exist among homicide rates, life expectancy and interpersonal trust among 38 countries between 2000-2012; and (2) whether correlations exist between life expectancy and homicide rates in 14 Caribbean countries between 2000-2012. DESIGN AND METHODS: An ecological study using an aggregated data analysis design was constructed using publicly available data. Interpersonal trust data were gathered from wave 6 (2010-2014) of the world values survey. Life expectancy data (2000-2012) were gathered from the World Bank; homicide rates were provided by the global homicide report published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in 2013. Data was analyzed in SPSS version 16. RESULTS: Spearman correlation testing indicated that interpersonal trust and homicide rates were significantly correlated (p<.05). Homicide rates and life expectancy were also significantly correlated between the years of 2005-2012 (p<.05). Trust and life expectancy were not significantly correlated. Spearman correlation analysis of homicide and life expectancy in selected Caribbean countries revealed no significant correlation. CONCLUSIONS: The significant correlation between trust and homicide rates suggests that there may be a cultural connection between interpersonal trust and violence at a global level. The consistent correlation between homicide rates and life expectancy between the years of 2005-2012 also implies that population level longevity is detrimentally affected by this connection between interpersonal trust and country level homicide rates. Interpersonal trust presents a potential avenue of public health intervention that may affect rates of crime and increase years of population life expectancy over time.


Assuntos
Homicídio , Expectativa de Vida , Confiança , Região do Caribe
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Percept Mot Skills ; 88(3 Pt 2): 1350, Jun. 1999.
Artigo em Inglês | MedCarib | ID: med-1309

RESUMO

The suicide and homicide rates of 14 Caribbean islands in the 1970s were predicted in part by the proportion of the population of African descent.(Au)


Assuntos
Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Homicídio/estatística & dados numéricos , Suicídio/estatística & dados numéricos , África , Negro ou Afro-Americano/estatística & dados numéricos , Probabilidade , Análise de Regressão , Região do Caribe/etnologia , Região do Caribe/epidemiologia
3.
West Indian med. j ; 43(suppl.1): 33-4, Apr. 1994.
Artigo em Inglês | MedCarib | ID: med-5397

RESUMO

For World Health Day, April 7, 1993, the World Health Organization (WHO) released information on male homicides, quoting men in Saint Lucia with the highest rate worldwide, 22.8 per 100,000 (1988 data). The Government of Saint Lucia investigated its homicide rates and those of selected countries (Trinidad and Tobago, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and the USA) for 1987-1992, using the most recent available figures. On comparison of the calculated standardized rates for male homicides (direct method), Saint Lucia no longer ranked number one worldwide for male homicide rates. This analysis led to the passing of a resolution in September, 1993 at the XXXVII Meeting of the Directing Council of PAHO/WHO whereby, before information on specific aspects on countries is released to the press, its accuracy be checked and the consequences for the country concerned considered (AU)


Assuntos
Humanos , Masculino , Ferimentos e Lesões , Homicídio/tendências , Santa Lúcia
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Bull Pan Am Health Organ ; 27(2): 154-67, 1993.
Artigo em Inglês | MedCarib | ID: med-8467

RESUMO

This article provides an assessment of 1986 mortality from violent causes in the Americas. Directed at assisting with development of preventive public health measures, it employs data available in the PAHO data base to focus on the under-25 year age group, compare mortality from violent causes with mortality from infectious and parasitic diseases, and evaluate the relative role of motor vehicle traffic accidents, other accidents, suicide, homicide, and deaths from unknown causes in mortality from voilent causes. The study uses the classification of causes presented on the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision. The results show that 517,465 deaths from violent causes were registered in 28 countries and political units of the Americas in 1986, mortality from these causes ranging from 19.3 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants in Jamaica to 125 in El Salvador. Examination of available 1980-1986 data from five countries points to steady increases in mortality from violent causes in Brazil and Cuba that began respectively in 1983 and 1984. Assessment of male and female 1986 mortality from these causes in nine countries showed male mortality to be substantially higher, the lowest male: female ratio (in Cuba) 1.9:1. Among infants,infectious and parasitic disease mortality was greater than mortality from violent causes in most countries. However, from age 1 to the study's 25-year cut off, mortality from violent causes was found to exceed infectious and parasitic disease mortality in most countries and to play an especially large role in deaths among those 19-24 years old. Data from eight countries suggested that accidents other than motor vehicle traffic accidents were accounting for much of the mortality from violent causes among infants and the 1-4 year age group in 1986, while motor vehicle traffic accidents rivaled other accidents in importance among the older (5-9, 10-14, 15-19, and 19-24) age groups. It appears that the information presented could prove of considerable use in developing policies designed to reduce morbidity and mortality from violent causes (1) (AU)


Assuntos
Adolescente , Adulto , Humanos , Masculino , Feminino , Mortalidade , Violência , Fatores Etários , Causas de Morte , América Central/epidemiologia , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Homicídio/estatística & dados numéricos , Lactente , Lactente , Recém-Nascido , América do Norte/epidemiologia , América do Sul/epidemiologia , Suicídio/estatística & dados numéricos
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N Engl J Med ; 301(10): 559, Sept. 6, 1979.
Artigo em Inglês | MedCarib | ID: med-12634
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Forensic Sci Int ; 13(2): 167-72, Mar-Apr. 1979.
Artigo em Inglês | MedCarib | ID: med-8814

RESUMO

Through the efforts of many of the leading forensic scientists in the world efforts are being made to develop a regional group of forensic experts who will be willing to respond to requests for help with major problems such as were faced with the Tenerife crash in the Canary Islands in 1977 and this problem in Guyana. This matter will be discussed in a session of the International Academy Meeting in Lyon in August of 1979 (Summary)


Assuntos
Humanos , Criança , Masculino , Feminino , Desastres , Medicina Legal , Guiana , Homicídio , Intoxicação , Religião/história , Suicídio , Estados Unidos/etnologia
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