Open AccessVanishing racial disparities in drowning in Florida
Author(s) -
Marina Mileo Gorsuch,
Samuel L. Myers,
Yufeng Lai,
Devan Steward,
Rachel Motachwa
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
injury prevention
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.745
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1475-5785
pISSN - 1353-8047
DOI - 10.1136/injuryprev-2018-042872
Subject(s) - demography , poison control , injury prevention , suicide prevention , occupational safety and health , ethnic group , geography , race (biology) , white (mutation) , human factors and ergonomics , medicine , medical emergency , political science , sociology , biology , biochemistry , pathology , law , gene , gender studies
To examine the change in the racial disparity in drowning in Florida from 1970 to 2015 and to analyse the contextual factors associated with white, black and Hispanic drowning rates in Florida from 2007 to 2015.