The body count : using routine mortality surveillance data to drive violence prevention

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dc.contributor.advisorMyers, J Een_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorThompson, Mary Louen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorMatzopoulos, Richarden_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-04-02T13:59:51Z
dc.date.available2015-04-02T13:59:51Z
dc.date.issued2012en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis thesis describes the conceptualisation, development and implementation of a mortuary-based system for the routine collection of information about homicide. It traces the evolution of the system from its conceptualisation in 1994, through various iterations as a city-level research tool, to a national sentinel system pilot, as a multicity all-injury surveillance system, and finally its institutionalisation as a provincial injury mortality surveillance system in the Western Cape. In so doing, it demonstrates that the data arising from medico-legal post-mortem investigations described in this thesis were an important source of descriptive epidemiological information on homicide. The 37,037 homicide records described in the thesis were drawn from Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth and Pretoria, for which the surveillance system maintained full coverage from 2001 to 2005. The aim was to apply more complex statistical analysis and modelling than had been applied previously.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationMatzopoulos, R. (2012). <i>The body count : using routine mortality surveillance data to drive violence prevention</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Health Sciences ,Department of Public Health and Family Medicine. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12645en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationMatzopoulos, Richard. <i>"The body count : using routine mortality surveillance data to drive violence prevention."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Health Sciences ,Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12645en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMatzopoulos, R. 2012. The body count : using routine mortality surveillance data to drive violence prevention. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Matzopoulos, Richard AB - This thesis describes the conceptualisation, development and implementation of a mortuary-based system for the routine collection of information about homicide. It traces the evolution of the system from its conceptualisation in 1994, through various iterations as a city-level research tool, to a national sentinel system pilot, as a multicity all-injury surveillance system, and finally its institutionalisation as a provincial injury mortality surveillance system in the Western Cape. In so doing, it demonstrates that the data arising from medico-legal post-mortem investigations described in this thesis were an important source of descriptive epidemiological information on homicide. The 37,037 homicide records described in the thesis were drawn from Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth and Pretoria, for which the surveillance system maintained full coverage from 2001 to 2005. The aim was to apply more complex statistical analysis and modelling than had been applied previously. DA - 2012 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2012 T1 - The body count : using routine mortality surveillance data to drive violence prevention TI - The body count : using routine mortality surveillance data to drive violence prevention UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12645 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/12645
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationMatzopoulos R. The body count : using routine mortality surveillance data to drive violence prevention. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Health Sciences ,Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, 2012 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12645en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Public Health and Family Medicineen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Health Sciencesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherPublic Health and Family Medicineen_ZA
dc.titleThe body count : using routine mortality surveillance data to drive violence preventionen_ZA
dc.typeDoctoral Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoral
dc.type.qualificationnamePhDen_ZA
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