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Abstract
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AIM: The aim of this study is to determine injury types and the causes of injury and to evaluate the injury's results in term of public health.
METHODS: Mersin University Medical Faculty Forensic Medicine Department's legal reports of year 2010 were evaluated for this descriptive study. Demographic features, causes of injury, injury style, date and place of injury, injured body part, the hospitalization need due to injury, clinics where injured patients were hospitalized (if any), hospitalization duration were obtained. Data are presented as mean± standard deviation and in percentages.
RESULTS: There were 1042 reported forensic injury cases in 2010. 67.7% of them are male, 32.3% are female, average age is 26.6±16.8. Injuries occurred due to traffic accidents, sharp objects, assault and poisoning, respectively. The first place belongs to traffic accidents (both for males and females), second place belongs to poison for females and sharp objects for males. The reasons of injuries; the ranking is accidents, interpersonal violence and suicides respectively for women while for accident, interpersonal violence and industrial accidents respectively for men. Accident is first ranked reason for every age group. Suicide was seen most frequently between 15-19th years for females. Suicide was determined in females 5-8 times more than males in all of age groups.
CONCLUSION: Accidents and interpersonal violence were first two reasons of injury. The first protection method for injuries in traffic accidents was prevention from accidents. If it is not possible, injury's prevention is other precaution. Public trainings must be organized in these topics. Besides, families must receive consultancy about girls' tendency to self damages in especially adolescent era. © 2014 Gulhane Military Medical Academy. All rights reserved.
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