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Local Macroeconomic Trends and Hospital Admissions for Child Abuse, 2000–2009
- Source :
- Pediatrics. 130:e358-e364
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), 2012.
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Abstract
- OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between local macroeconomic indicators and physical abuse admission rates to pediatric hospitals over time. METHODS: Retrospective study of children admitted to 38 hospitals in the Pediatric Hospital Information System database. Hospital data were linked to unemployment, mortgage delinquency, and foreclosure data for the associated metropolitan statistical areas. Primary outcomes were admission rates for (1) physical abuse in children
- Subjects :
- Male
Child abuse
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty
Cross-sectional study
media_common.quotation_subject
Poison control
Occupational safety and health
Neglect
Patient Admission
Injury prevention
Juvenile delinquency
Humans
Medicine
Child Abuse
Poisson Distribution
Poverty
Retrospective Studies
media_common
business.industry
Infant
Pennsylvania
Hospitals, Pediatric
Causality
Cross-Sectional Studies
Physical abuse
Socioeconomic Factors
Unemployment
Brain Injuries
Child, Preschool
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Female
business
Demography
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10984275 and 00314005
- Volume :
- 130
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Pediatrics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f4bcb055899f1bed81d29294ebbb1fe8
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2011-3755