+ The financial burden of injury-related hospitalizations to an Alaska Native health system
- Author:
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Chandler, B. A. / Berger, L. R.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- Alaska Med
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Ethnicity, Local, Medical, Suicide
- Keywords:
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Alaska, Firearms, Health Care Costs, Suicide, Violence
The authors evaluated how much the Tanana Chiefs Conference in Interior Alaska, a Native Alaskans’ health care system, paid for injury-related hospitalizations from 1994-1998. They identified 511 cases...
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+ Episodic and persistent gun-carrying among urban African-American adolescents
- Author:
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Steinman, K. J. / Zimmerman, M. A.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- J Adolesc Health
- Topics:
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Ethnicity, Gun Carrying, Local, Students, Urban/Rural
- Keywords:
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Adolescents, African-American, Firearms, Violence, risk factor
The authors examined the risk factors influencing occasional and persistent gun-carrying by urban African-American adolescents, interviewing 705 African-American high school students from four public...
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+ Drugs and Firearm Deaths in New York City
- Author:
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Galea, S. / Ahern, J. / Tardiff, K. / Leon, A. C. / Vlahov, D.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- Journal of Urban Health-Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine
- Topics:
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Ethnicity, Local, Medical
- Keywords:
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Drug Use, Firearms, New York City, medical examiner
The authors used Medical Examiner records data from New York City to examine the role of drugs in the incidence of firearm deaths from 1990 to 1998. From toxicology reports, they found that half of all...
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