Trend Analysis of Homicide Mortality and Years of Life Lost in the South of Iran, 2004-2019.
Habibollah AzarbakhshJafar HassanzadehSeyed Sina DehghaniMaryam JanfadaMohammad Hossein SharifiAlireza MirahmadizadehPublished in: Journal of research in health sciences (2023)
The crude and standardized mortality rates and the number of YLL due to homicide in the study period had a significant decreasing trend in men but a stable trend in women. To control this issue, officials and policymakers should identify the areas of homicide and control its risk factors such as economic and social issues, drug addiction, and the state of violence.