Low-income neighbourhoods experience far more injuries than high-income areas
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 - 06:28
in Health & Medicine
Penetrating injury rates were more than 20 times higher for persons living in the lowest income neighbourhoods compared with those living in the highest income neighbourhoods, according to a new study published in the August issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. Researchers also found that those in the lowest-income neighbourhoods experienced nearly six times higher rates of blunt injury than persons in the highest income neighbourhoods. Penetrating injuries included those from firearms or cuts; blunt injuries included motor vehicle crashes, falls and assaults...
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