According to How we Die, 35 percent of trauma in the United States is caused by automobiles and 7 percent by motorcycles. (10% of trauma is from gunshots and another
According to the International Labour Organization, the workplace deathtoll of 1.1 million deaths exceeds the average annual deaths from road accidents (999,000), war (502,000), violence (563,000) and HIV/AIDS (312,000). Approximately
Due to religious and social pressures, suicide is a largely under-reported phenomenon in our society. It is considered a sin or immoral act in many religions, and a crime in
An epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time; in meningococcal infections, an attack rate
If we look at the average over the past decade, approximately 50,000 people globally died every year from natural disasters — earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, tsunamis, floods, wildfires and droughts,
A report issued by the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime in July 2019 documented that nearly 464,000 people around the world were killed in homicides in 2017, a
Waging war has been the main occupation of man since the first recorded civilizations. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, “war” is defined as A state of armed conflict between
According to the 1948 Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as
