Trends in admission to hospital for assault in Northern Ireland, 1996/97-2008/09
Author(s) -
Sangkeun Lee
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1741-3850
pISSN - 1741-3842
DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdq082
Subject(s) - northern ireland , medicine , harm , public health , occupational safety and health , demography , injury prevention , poison control , medical emergency , emergency medicine , psychology , nursing , history , ethnology , pathology , sociology , social psychology
The aim of the study is to investigate in-patient admission trends for assaults in Northern Ireland. Of particular interest was whether trends in the hospital data increased in line with police statistics, or decreased in line with the Northern Ireland Crime Survey, and paramilitary style punishment attacks.
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