TABLE 5: Total number of deaths, Jan., 1993-Dec., 1995, and three-year mean crude death rates from selected External causes and Other causes, Moscow, Russia, 1993-1995* (per 100,000)

Code

Cause of Death

Total

N deaths

Mean death rate

Selected External Causes

14,872

57.43

175

Injury of undetermined cause

7099

27.41

168

accidental drowning

294

1.14

166

accidental falls

1181

4.56

160

Motor vehicle accident

776

3.00

161

motor vehicle accident involving pedestrians

1393

5.38

173

Suicide and self-inflicted injury

1867

7.21

174

Homicide

2262

8.73

Selected Other Causes

75,009

289.63

97

Other forms of heart disease

14976

57.83

75

Alcohol dependence

3197

12.34

123

Other cirrhosis

5032

19.43

159

Other non-specific conditions and symptoms

7821

30.20

74

Other psychosis

2014

7.78

  Other accidents and violence

4020

15.52

  Other

37949

146.53

 

* mortality data for 1993-1995 was kindly shared by Prof. M. McKee, London School of Hygiene and Public Health; data is a three year sum, January, 1993-December, 1995, death rate calculated with a three year average Moscow population (8700.0-Jan.,1994; 8625.4-Jan.,1995; 8572.4-Jan.,1996).