Open AccessCan social vulnerability indices predict county trauma fatality rates?
Author(s) -
Heather Phelos,
Andrew–Paul Deeb,
Joshua B. Brown
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the journal of trauma and acute care surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.25
H-Index - 187
eISSN - 2163-0763
pISSN - 2163-0755
DOI - 10.1097/ta.0000000000003228
Subject(s) - case fatality rate , social vulnerability , demography , geography , population , vulnerability (computing) , socioeconomic status , bivariate analysis , poison control , index (typography) , injury prevention , statistics , medicine , environmental health , computer security , mathematics , sociology , psychiatry , world wide web , computer science , psychological intervention
Social vulnerability indices were created to measure resiliency to environmental disasters based on socioeconomic and population characteristics of discrete geographic regions. They are composed of multiple validated constructs that can also potentially identify geographically vulnerable populations after injury. Our objective was to determine if these indices correlate with injury fatality rates in the US.