Child and adolescent injury and death from urban firearm assaults: Association with age, race, and poverty

Injury Prevention

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 41-47

  Powell, Elizabeth C ^a   Tanz, Robert R ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Assault; Firearm; Poverty

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHICAGO; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 0033090128     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: 14755785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.5.1.41     Document Type: Article

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