Socioeconomic status and injury mortality: individual and neighbourhood determinants

摘要

Study objective-This study examined both individual and neighbourhood corre- lates of injury morality to better under- stand the contribution of socioeconomic status to cause specific injury mortality. Of particular interest was whether neigh- Bourhood effects remained after adjusting For individual demographic characteris- Tics and socioeconomic status. Design-Census tract data (measuring Smal area socioeconmic status, racial Concentration, residential stability, ur- Banisation, and family structure) was merged with the National Health Inter- View Survey (NHIS) and a file that links The respondents to subsequent follow up of Vital status and cause of death data. Cox Proportional hazards models were pseci- Fied to determine individual and neigh- Bourhood effects on homicide, suicide, Motor vehicle deaths, and other external Causes. Variance are adjusted for the Clustered sample design of the NHIS. Setting-United States, 1987-1994, with Follow up to the end of 1995.