ISSN: 1304-5040
Dil: Türkçe, ingilizce
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ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLES |
Deaths Occurred In The Age Group Of 0-18 Years In Konya Between 2001 And 2006
Dr. Şerafettin DEMİRCİ,a Dr. Kamil Hakan DOĞAN,a Dr. Zerrin ERKOL,b Dr. İdris DENİZa
aAdli Tıp ABD, Selçuk Üniversitesi Meram Tıp Fakültesi, KONYA
bAdli Tıp ABD, Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, BOLU
Objective: According to first article of Children’s Rights Agreement “apart from reaching the adult age by the laws, the people before completing the age of 18 are classified as children. In this study, it was aimed to determine the main causes of forensic children deaths in the age group of children between 0 and 18 years.
Material and Methods: Forensic death examinations and autopsy in 2850 subject between 2001 and 2006 in the time limit of 6 years were performed and 642 of 2850 cases of deaths were evaluated in view of subjects’ demographic characteristics, causes and origins of deaths.
Results: Mean age of the subjects was 6.59 ± 6.07, and 429 (66.8%) of them were male and 213 (33.2%) were female. Most of the deaths were determined to be occured between 0 and 4 years of age. The main cause of death in 493 (76.8%) cases was accident and the other causes were natural causes in 82 (12.8%) cases, murder in 42 (6.5%), and suicide in 15 (2.4%) respectively. 157 (24.5%) cases were in-car accidents out of total 313 (49.0%) traffic accident cases, followed by 70 (10.9%) cases of falling down from high places. When the natural causes of deaths were evaluated, in 19 (20.6%) cases the reason was pneumonia or bronchopneumonia and in 14 (15.2%) cases the reason was cardiac pathologies.
Conclusion: Since it was determined that the main cause of death in children is traffic accidents, some precautions should be taken to prevent traffic accidents. Besides we think that preventive and therapeutic health services for children should be used more effectively in order to reduce those childhood deaths.Keywords: Child mortality, forensic medicineTurkiye Klinikleri J Foren Med 2007, 4:121-126
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