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South Africa’s male homicide epidemic hiding in plain sight: Exploring sex differences and patterns in homicide risk in a retrospective descriptive study of postmortem investigations
South Africa has an overall homicide rate six times the global average. Males are predominantly the victims and perpetrators, but little is known about the male victims. For the country’s first ever study on male homicide we compared 2017 male and female victim profiles for selected covariates, agai...
Autores principales: | Matzopoulos, Richard, Prinsloo, Megan R., Mhlongo, Shibe, Marineau, Lea, Cornell, Morna, Bowman, Brett, Mamashela, Thakadu A., Gwebushe, Nomonde, Ketelo, Asiphe, Martin, Lorna J., Dekel, Bianca, Lombard, Carl, Jewkes, Rachel, Abrahams, Naeemah |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10664949/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37992033 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0002595 |
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