title: [Epidemiological and forensic medical considerations regarding frequency and causes of violent deaths in Iaşi. County, between 1997-2006].
abstract: Authors present some epidemiological aspects of violent deaths in Iasi County, with certain comparisons with Romania, during the period 1997-2006.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study included information collected by Institutes of Forensic Medicine at the national level.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In Romania, violent deaths registered values between 2.6 and 4.5%, with yearly non-significant statistical differences when reported to causes of death, excepted years 2005 and 2006. Violent deaths situated Iasi County over the national level (8-11 / 2.7% per hundred thousand). Homicides registered 9.3% per hundred thousand, as compared with much more reduced values in other 12 Romanian counties, in the same period of study.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Violent death in Romania and Iasi County highlighted a dependence of difficulties to carry out efficient programmes of prevention and emergency assistance.
authors.affiliation: Universităţii de Medicină si Farmacie "Gr.T. Popa" Iaşi.
authors.forename: Diana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Vornicu
authors.forename: Simona
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Damian
authors.forename: Doina
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Azoicăi
authors.forename: Mioara Calipsoana
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Matei
authors.forename: Alina
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Manole
mesh_terms: D000374:Aggression; D002423:Cause of Death; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D006708:Homicide / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D012383:Romania / Q000453:epidemiology; D013405:Suicide / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014754:Violence / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000092864:Suicide Prevention