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Suffocation
Author(s) -
MOSKOWITZ CHERYL
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
critical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1467-8705
pISSN - 0011-1562
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8705.1990.tb00598.x
Subject(s) - citation , library science , computer science
Washington State Goal Statement To decrease deaths and hospitalizations due to suffocation National Healthy People 2010 Objectives • Reduce suffocation deaths from 4.1 deaths in 1998 to 3.0 deaths per 100,000 Statement of the Problem in Washington State Washington State Data Suffocation rates have increased over the past 17 years in Washington State and nationally. Rates in the state are quite variable. In 2006, the latest data available, the suffocation rate in Washington was 4 per 100,000.