Impact of social standing on injury prevention in a World Health Organization Safe Community--intervention outcome by household employment contract | Zendy

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Impact of social standing on injury prevention in a World Health Organization Safe Community--intervention outcome by household employment contract

Author(s) -

Kent Lindqvist,

Toomas Timpka,

Nadine Karlsson

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyh093

Subject(s) - intervention (counseling) , medicine , population , health care , injury prevention , public health , environmental health , occupational safety and health , demography , poison control , nursing , political science , sociology , pathology , law

Although social inequality in health has been an argument for community-based injury prevention programmes, intervention outcomes with regard to differences in social standing have not been analysed. The objective of this study was to investigate rates of injuries treated in health-care among members of households at different levels of labour market integration before and after the implementation of a WHO Safe Community programme.

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