|
Date : |
24 August 2011 |
|
Time : |
12:15 – 13:30 |
|
Presenters : |
|
|
Violence-related injuries are a major cause of death in South Africa, but geographical trends in certain categories of homicides such as blunt force injury deaths have not been investigated. The objective of the study is to determine the trends in the annual incidence of homicides by blunt force in a coastal and inland city of South Africa at the turn of the century. The National Injury Mortality Surveillance System (NIMSS) recorded 2923 blunt force deaths nationally between 2001 and 2002, which represents about 12.6% of all homicides deaths. Data for Port Elizabeth and Pretoria will be extracted from NIMSS and will be geo-referenced to their census main places. The mid-year population estimates by Statistics South Africa for each of the two years will be used to calculate incidence. A geographical information system (GIS) database will be created to map incidence and to analyse the trends in blunt force injury deaths across each of the two cities. This presentation will present the results of this analysis through a series of maps that depict changes in the geographical distribution of blunt force injury deaths and showcase GIS as a tool to analyse fatal injury data. The presentation from the seminar is now available for download Venues Cape Town: HSRC, 12th Floor, Plein Park Building (Opposite Revenue Office), Plein Street, Cape Town. Contact Vuyokazi Ngxubaza, Tel +27 (0) 21 466 8004, Fax (021) 461 0299, or VNgxubaza@hsrc.ac.za Cell: +27 (0) 82 050 8453 Durban: First floor HSRC board room, 750 Francois Road, Ntuthuko Junction, Pods 5 and 6, Cato Manor, Contact Ridhwaan Khan, Tel +27 (0) 31 242 5400, Cell: +27 (0) 83 788 2786 or RKhan@hsrc.ac.za Pretoria: HSRC Video Conference, 1st floor HSRC Library Human Sciences Research Council, 134 Pretorius Street, Pretoria. Arlene Grossberg, Tel: (012) 302 2811, e-mail: acgrossberg@hsrc.ac.za Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU): NMMU North Campus, MTLC Building, 2nd Floor, Room M206, Mr Angus, Tel: +27 (0) 41 504 34 17 , Cell: +27 (0) 73 703 0317 |
|
A Tale of Two Cities: Geographical Trends in Blunt-Force Injury Deaths in Port Elizabeth
24 August 2011
12:15 - 13:30
