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Neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation and youth assault injuries in Vancouver, Canada Singh, Tanjot K.; Khan, Mayesha; Tansley, Gavin; Chan, Herbert; Brubacher, Jeffrey; Staples, John A.

Abstract

Objective: To examine the degree to which neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation influences youth assault injury risk. Study design: Population-based retrospective study of youth aged 10 to 24 years seeking emergency medical care between 2012 and 2019 at 14 hospitals in Vancouver, Canada. Neighborhood material and social deprivation were examined as independent predictors of assault injury, accounting for spatial autocorrelation and controlling for neighborhood drinking establishment density. Results: Our data included 4,166 assault injuries among 3,817 youth. Male sex, substance use and mental health disorders were common among victims of assault. Relative to the least deprived quintile of neighborhoods, assault injury risk was two-fold higher in the most materially deprived quintile of neighborhoods (incidence rate ratio [IRR] per quintile increase, 1.17; 95%CI, 1.06-1.30; p

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Title
Neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation and youth assault injuries in Vancouver, Canada
Creator
Singh, Tanjot K.; Khan, Mayesha; Tansley, Gavin; Chan, Herbert; Brubacher, Jeffrey; Staples, John A.
Contributor
Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation
Publisher
Elsevier
Date Issued
2021
Description
Objective: To examine the degree to which neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation influences youth assault injury risk. Study design: Population-based retrospective study of youth aged 10 to 24 years seeking emergency medical care between 2012 and 2019 at 14 hospitals in Vancouver, Canada. Neighborhood material and social deprivation were examined as independent predictors of assault injury, accounting for spatial autocorrelation and controlling for neighborhood drinking establishment density. Results: Our data included 4,166 assault injuries among 3,817 youth. Male sex, substance use and mental health disorders were common among victims of assault. Relative to the least deprived quintile of neighborhoods, assault injury risk was two-fold higher in the most materially deprived quintile of neighborhoods (incidence rate ratio [IRR] per quintile increase, 1.17; 95%CI, 1.06-1.30; p
Subject
Youth; Injury; Violence; Socioeconomic status; Neighborhood material deprivation; Neighborhood social deprivation
Geographic Location
Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Genre
Postprint
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2022-09-01
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0406495
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/80773
Affiliation
Medicine, Faculty of; Emergency Medicine, Department of; Medicine, Department of
Citation
Singh, T. K., Khan, M., Tansley, G., Chan, H., Brubacher, J. R., & Staples, J. A. (2021). Neighborhood Socioeconomic Deprivation and Youth Assault Injuries in Vancouver, Canada. The Journal of Pediatrics.
Publisher DOI
10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.08.073
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty; Researcher; Graduate
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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