Investigating the effect of social changes on age-specific gun-related homicide rates in New York City during the 1990s

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1107-1115

  Cerdá, Magdalena ^a   Messner, Steven F ^b   Tracy, Melissa ^c   Vlahov, David ^a   Goldmann, Emily ^c   Tardiff, Kenneth J ^e   Galea, Sandro ^d  

^a NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^e WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CRIME; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MORTALITY; PROBABILITY; SOCIAL CARE; SOCIAL CHANGE; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BAYES THEOREM; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CRIME; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEW YORK CITY; PUBLIC ASSISTANCE; SOCIAL CHANGE; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952280580     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.158238     Document Type: Review

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