Wyndham C H
S Afr Med J. 1986 Apr 26;69(9):559-62.
Cause- and age-specific mortality rates (MRs) were calculated for 1980 for all four population groups in the RSA for certain accidents, poisonings and violence as they are grouped in the WHO International Classification of Diseases (ICD). Cause-specific MRs of coloureds, Asians and blacks were age-adjusted to the age-distribution of whites in 1980 in order to judge the relative importance of the various causes of death. This showed that in whites and Asians motor vehicle accidents (MVAs) head the rank order of MRs; furthermore the first three MRs in the rank order, namely for MVAs, suicide and violence, are common in these two populations. A similar situation exists among coloureds and blacks in that the MRs for homicide rank first and the first four causes of death in the rank order of MRs--homicide, MVAs, violence and other accidents--are common to those two population groups. The fact that deaths from MVAs and violence rank so high in the MRs for all four population groups lends support to the contention that the RSA is a 'violent society'.
按照世界卫生组织《国际疾病分类》（ICD）的归类方式，计算了1980年南非共和国所有四个群体因某些事故、中毒和暴力导致的特定病因和年龄别死亡率（MRs）。将有色人种、亚洲人和黑人的特定病因死亡率按照1980年白人的年龄分布进行年龄调整，以便判断各种死因的相对重要性。结果显示，在白人和亚洲人中，机动车事故（MVA）在死亡率排名中位居首位；此外，死亡率排名前三的，即机动车事故、自杀和暴力，在这两个人口中较为常见。有色人种和黑人的情况类似，杀人死亡率排名第一，死亡率排名前四位的死因——杀人、机动车事故、暴力和其他事故——在这两个人口中较为常见。机动车事故和暴力导致的死亡在所有四个群体的死亡率中排名如此之高，这一事实支持了南非共和国是一个“暴力社会”的观点。
