Social aetiology of violent deaths in Swedish XXXX and youth.

@entity1 @entity204
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To describe the contribution of social conditions for the main causes of @entity204 in Swedish @entity1 and youth aged 5-25 years. DESIGN: Cohort study. All @entity1 below 15 years of age that resided in Sweden 1985 were followed up during 1991-1995. @entity204 were recorded from The National Cause of Death Register. Information on parental social determinants were collected from various national registers. Connections between the social determinants and an @entity204 outcome were analysed in multivariate Cox regression models. MAIN RESULTS: In total 1474 @entity204 were recorded during approximately 8 million @entity1 years. In a regression model, with control for sex, year of birth, and residency (urban/rural), the aetiological fraction for parental SES, maternal country of birth, family situation, parental risk factors, and all these factors combined were 13%, 6%, 1.4%, 1.3%, and 19%, respectively. Similar regression models were studied separately for each of the main causes of @entity204 . The parental social determinants explained 58% of all homicides, 47% of all motor traffic injuries, and 30% of all other traffic injuries while the suicide rate was not affected by these determinants. Parental socioeconomic status was the single most important parental determinant for all major causes of injury. CONCLUSIONS: There was a wide variation of the aetiological fractions of parental social determinants for different causes of @entity204 . This variation might be used to further investigate the social aetiology of injuries.
