| This paper is a report on the use for comparative quantitative evaluation of violent and nonviolent deaths in different areas of the Arriaga's demographic method of years of life lost. Arriaga, Eduardo.: 1984. Measuring and Explaining the Change of Life Expectancies. Demography, 21(l), 63-96) . This method allows the analysis of mortality changes for each single cause (natural and violent) and sex and age group, as well as for all age groups combined, The number of years of life lost measures the impact of the change of mortality on the life of the population, as does the life expectancy at birth. We analyzed in several papers the rates of mortality from external causes, observing in homicide a major cause , for sex and age groups and the number of years lost due to violence for Brazil, the Brazilian Great Regions, and the States of Rio de Janeiro and SAo Paulo. Comparisons are made with other regions in Brazil, and Argentina. Over two decades, mortality rates in Brazil have shown deterioration for males in almost all age groups, but mainly for youngs, in contrast with improvements at different ages for females. This results are shown comparatively among the researched areas. |
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