Citation

Baruah A, Barua A. Health Popul. Perspect. Iss. 2006; 29(1): 29-36.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, National Institute of Health and Family Welfare (India))

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Abstract

The study was conducted in two tertiary care hospital settings; one a government hospital, the Assam Medical College Hospital and the other is a well-known private hospital, the Aditya Hospital, Assam. The study revealed that (i) the male victims of violence outnumbered their female counterparts but suicides and self-harm attempts were almost equal for both the sexes; (ii) interpersonal violence cases were more prevalent in the case of males (931) in comparison to females (256); (iii) violence was more common among the illiterates (26.04%) while the prevalence rate of violence was zero in case of professionally qualified people; (iv) married people were more involved in self-inflicted (52.87%) and interpersonal violence (52.81%) cases as compared to the unmarried respondents; and (v) the study noticed that 90 per cent of the self-inflicted violence occurred at the homes of the victims whereas 54.30 per cent of the inter-personal violence occurred on the streets.

Language: en

Keywords

adolescent; adult; human; violence; Violence; child; aged; prevalence; review; controlled study; social aspect; medical literature; Social factors; tertiary health care; sex differentiation; Health burden and Suicide; Individual factors