Fire fatalities among children: An analysis across Philadelphia's census tracts

Public Health Reports

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 115-126

  Shai, Donna ^a   Lupinacci, Paul ^a  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATALITY; FEMALE; FIRE; FIRE PROTECTION; GROUPS BY AGE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFANT; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE PARENT; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES; BURN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; COOKING; ELECTRICITY; ETHNOLOGY; HOUSING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; BUILDING CODES; BURNS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CENSUSES; CHILD; COOKERY; ELECTRIC WIRING; FEMALE; FIRES; HOUSING; HUMANS; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PHILADELPHIA; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0037361192     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0033-3549(04)50226-1     Document Type: Article

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