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Police and Security, Vol. 20 No. 4, 2011.

Professional paper

Safety of Foreign Citizens in Split-Dalmatia County During Five Year Period (2000.−2004.)

Kristijan Bečić ; Medicinski fakultet, Sveučilište u Splitu, Split, Hrvatska
Antonio Alujević ; KBC Split, Split, Hrvatska
Marija Definis-Gojanović ; KBC Split, Split, Hrvatska

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Abstract

Introduction: Although Croatia, and especially Split-Dalmatia county has some of the most beautiful nature and cultural attractions, it is extremely important that foreign citizens feel safe as well as comfortable. Because of that, deaths of foreign citizens remain important parameter of safety and on that basis it is necessary to build better legislation to improve it even more. Materials and methods: All of the data was collected from the Department for Forensic Pathology Split and Croatian Central Bureau for Statistics. Data covers period from 2000–2004 (5 year period). Results: In the analyzed period total of 84 deaths (55 males, 65,5%) of tourists occurred in Split-Dalmatia county. Accidental deaths were more frequent among younger people, and deaths by natural causes were connected with age. Total of 38 deaths (45,2%) were typed as natural and 45 deaths (53,6%) were violent deaths. Most of violent deaths were deaths by drowning (22, 26,2% of all deaths) or connected with traffic (16, 19,1% of all deaths). Most of the tourists that lost their lives were of German (22, 26,2%), Czech (20, 23,8%), Austrian (44, 13,1%), Polish (6, 7,1%) and Italian (6, 7,1%) nationality. Total of 5.055.530 tourists of all nationalities entered the county during this 5-year period which makes mortality rate among tourists of 0,0017%. Conclusions: Although there were some reports that Croatia is unsafe destination, data reported in this paper, if paralleled on a larger scale, contradict. With mortality of 1,7 on 100 000 Croatia remains a perfectly safe country for tourism. Most often deaths occur from cardiovascular diseases for which it would be reasonable to conclude that would occur no matter where this person is. So, if excluded, only 0,9 on 100 000 tourists die of violent deaths. Although this number is not high, it is important to do everything in our power to prevent even this small number of deaths.

Keywords

tourism; foreign citizens; death; drowning; traffic; Croatia

Hrčak ID:

79687

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/79687

Publication date:

15.3.2012.

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