Patterns of violence in Karachi, Pakistan

Injury Prevention

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 57-59

  Chotani, Habib A ^a   Razzak, J A ^a   Luby, S P ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; PAKISTAN; STATISTICS; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; AMBULANCES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAKISTAN; URBAN HEALTH; VIOLENCE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0036518896     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: 14755785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.8.1.57     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Murray CJ, Lopez AD. Mortality by cause for eight regions of the world: Global Burden of Disease Study. Lancet 1997;349:1269-76. (Pubitemid 27192468)
2. Agudelo SF. Violence and health: preliminary elements for thought and action. Int J Health Serv 1992;22:365-76.
3. Friday JC. The psychological impact of violence in undeserved communities. J Health Care Poor Underserved 1995;6:403-9.
4. Ugalde A, Zwi A. Political violence in the third world, a public health issue. Health Policy Plan 1991;6:203-17.
5. Shepherd JP, Farrington DP. Assault as a public health problem: discussion paper. J R Soc Med 1993;86:89-92. (Pubitemid 23039667)
6. Nagin D. General deterrence: a review of the empirical evidence. In: Blumstein A, Cohen J, Nagin D, eds. Deterrence and incapacitation: estimating the effects of criminal sanctions on crime rates. Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences 1978:95-139.
7. Federal Bureau of Statistics. Pakistan demographic survey. Islamabad: Federal Bureau of Statistics, Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan, 1992.
8. Mayhew P, Dowds L, Elliot TD. The 1988 British Crime Survey. London: Home Office, 1989.
9. Razzak JA, Luby SP. Estimating deaths and injuries due to road traffic accidents in Karachi, Pakistan through the capture-recapture method. Int J Epidemiol 1998;27:866-70. (Pubitemid 28504976)
10. Government of Pakistan, Statistics Division. Available at www.statpak.gov.pk/, accessed on 10/28/01.
11. Epi Info version 6.04b. Atlanta, GA: Division of Surveillance and Epidemiology, Epidemiology program office, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), July 1995.
12. Shoman M, Abdel Aziz S, Youssef A, et al. Reading in the statistics of some types of violence: a case of Egypt, from 1940 to 1990. Cairo, Egypt: National Center for Social and Criminology Research, 1992.
13. Fingerhut LA, Ingram DD, Feldman JJ. Firearm and nonfirearm homicide among persons 15 through 19 years of age. Differences by level of urbanization, United States, 1979 through 1989. JAMA 1992;267:3048-53.
14. Fingerhut LA, Ingram DD, Feldman JJ. Homicide rates among US teenagers and young adults: differences by mechanism, level of urbanization, race, and sex, 1987 through 1995. JAMA 1998;280:423-7. (Pubitemid 28498957)
15. United States Federal Government, Fedstate. Available at: www.fedstats.gov/mapstats/crime.html/crime-36000.html. Accessed on 10/12/01.
16. Barata RB, Ribeiro MC, Guedes MB, et al. Intra-urban differentials in death rates from homicide in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1988-1994. Soc Sci Med 1998;47:19-23. (Pubitemid 28297266)
17. Villaveces A, Cummings P, Espitia VE, et al. Effect of a ban on carrying firearms on homicide rates in 2 Colombian cities. JAMA 2000;283:1205-9. (Pubitemid 30126616)