Years of life lost due to encounters with law enforcement in the USA, 2015-2016

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2018, Pages 715-718

  Bui, Anthony L ^a   Coates, Matthew M ^b   Matthay, Ellicott C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

epidemiology; ethnicity; mortality; socio economic; violence

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNICITY; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; VIOLENCE; YOUNG POPULATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; DEATH; ETHNICITY; HUMAN; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY; POLICE; PREVENTION; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; AGED; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREMATURE MORTALITY; PUBLICATION; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY, PREMATURE; NEWSPAPERS AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85049164728     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2017-210059     Document Type: Article

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