TY - JOUR PY - 2011// TI - Epidemiological and forensic medical considerations regarding frequency and causes of violent deaths in Iasi County, between 1997-2006 JO - Revista medico-chirurgicală a Societă ţ̜ii de Medici şi Naturalişti din Iaşi A1 - Vornicu, Diana A1 - Damian, Simona A1 - Azoicăi, Doina A1 - Matei, Mioara Calipsoana A1 - Manole, Alina SP - 195 EP - 199 VL - 115 IS - 1 N2 - Authors present some epidemiological aspects of violent deaths in Iasi County, with certain comparisons with Romania, during the period 1997-2006. MATERIAL AND METHOD: The study included information collected by Institutes of Forensic Medicine at the national level. RESULTS: In Romania, violent deaths registered values between 2.6 and 4.5%, with yearly non-significant statistical differences when reported to causes of death, excepted years 2005 and 2006. Violent deaths situated Iasi County over the national level (8-11 / 2.7% per hundred thousand). Homicides registered 9.3% per hundred thousand, as compared with much more reduced values in other 12 Romanian counties, in the same period of study. CONCLUSIONS: Violent death in Romania and Iasi County highlighted a dependence of difficulties to carry out efficient programmes of prevention and emergency assistance.

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