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Socio‐economic status and childhood injuries
Author(s) -
LANGLEY JOHN,
SILVA PHIL,
WILLIAMS SHEILA
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
journal of paediatrics and child health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.631
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1440-1754
pISSN - 1034-4810
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1754.1983.tb02110.x
Subject(s) - medicine , socioeconomic status , injury prevention , occupational safety and health , human factors and ergonomics , poison control , suicide prevention , environmental health , demography , medical emergency , pathology , population , sociology
. The hypothesis that there was an inverse linear relationship between childhood injuries and socio‐economic status was tested. Four measures of socio‐economic status were related to childhood injury records covering the first seven years of life. The results failed to show any significant relationship between history of injury and four measures of socio‐economic status.