A population-based study of injuries in inner-city women

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 59-68

  Grisso, Jeane Ann ^a   Wishner, Amy R ^b   Schwarz, Donald F ^c   Weene, Barbara A ^a   Holmes, John H ^a   Sutton, Rudolph L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b PHILADELPHIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blacks; Spouse abuse; Violence; Women; Wounds and injuries

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BATTERED WOMAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; MOTOR VEHICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SPOUSE; SUICIDE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE; WOUND;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLACKS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGE; PHILADELPHIA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; URBAN POPULATION; VIOLENCE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0025883812     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a115993     Document Type: Article

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