Citation

Soares KV, Blue I, Cano E, Mari J de J. Health Place 1998; 4(2): 195-198.

Affiliation

Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Departamento de Psiquiatria, Brazil.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10671023

Abstract

This paper aims to describe the principal causes of violent deaths among young people in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Data from routine mortality statistics were used in the analysis. Young males were found to have a dramatically increased risk of death from violent causes especially those resident in lower income areas of the city. Possible explanations for these findings include economic instability generating social and cultural inequalities.

Language: en