Twenty-year trends in fatal injuries to very young children: The persistence of racial disparities

Pediatrics

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Pressley, Joyce C ^a,b   Barlow, Barbara ^a,b   Kendig, Tiffany ^a   Paneth Pollak, Rachel ^a,b  

^a Mailman School of Public Health   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Health disparities; Infants; Injury; Injury prevention; Race; Trends

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; CHILD; CHILD DEATH; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROWNING; FALLING; FIRE PROTECTION; GUNSHOT INJURY; HOME ACCIDENT; HUMAN; INFANT; INTOXICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PEDESTRIAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREND STUDY;

ACCIDENTS, HOME; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AGE FACTORS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; NEW YORK CITY; PROBABILITY; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VITAL STATISTICS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 34147106564     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-2412     Document Type: Article

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