Violence and injury mortality in the Cape Town metropole

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 298-301

  Lerer, Leonard B ^a   Matzopoulos, Richard G ^a   Phillips, Rozette ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; DEATH; DROWNING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FIRE; FIREARM; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MALE; MORTALITY; POLICE; SOUTH AFRICA; SUICIDE; URBAN POPULATION; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0030940175     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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