Low-income neighborhoods experience far more injuries than high-income areas, study finds
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 - 22:28
in Health & Medicine
Penetrating injury rates were more than 20 times higher for persons living in the lowest income neighborhoods compared with those living in the highest income neighborhoods, according to a new study.
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