The effects of homicides and suicides on the population longevity of the United States

✍ Scribed by Alex Waigandt; LeAdelle Phelps

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 396 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-9867
• DOI: 10.1002/jts.2490030210

✦ Synopsis

The purpose of this study was to analyze population longevity relative to homicide and suicide deaths in light of competing risks. Mortality data by age and sex derived from Vital Statistics and data from the US. Census were utilized to calculate life tables. The causes of death for this study were classified according to the Eighth Revision of the Internal C[mi~cation of Disease, Adapted (ICDA) (World Health Organization). The ICSA code for the causes examined in this study are homicides (E960-E987) and suicides (E950-E959). Calculations based upon public health data and cause deletion indicate a Im in population life expectancy due to homicide and suicide deaths of 0.70456 years for males and 0.2606 years for fema[es.

When the findings are translated to the life expectancy of the population in terms of time, a total of 1,305,805 person years per decade are irretrievably lost from suicide and homicide deaths.