Temporal Trends and Racial/Ethnic Inequalities for Legal Intervention Injuries Treated in Emergency Departments: US Men and Women Age 15–34, 2001–2014

In the USA, public health and medical professional associations have identied police violence as an issue of concern, calling for better monitoring of injuries caused by use of force and more research about the health consequences of police practices.13 A number of recent papers by public health sch...

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Published in:Journal of urban health 2016-10, Vol.93 (5), p.797-807
Main Authors: Feldman, Justin M., Chen, Jarvis T., Waterman, Pamela D., Krieger, Nancy
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Continental Population Groups
Emergency Service, Hospital - statistics & numerical data
Epidemiology
Ethnic Groups
Female
Health Informatics
Health Status Disparities
Humans
Inequality
Jurisprudence
Male
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Minority & ethnic groups
Public Health
Race
Socioeconomic Factors
United States
Wounds and Injuries - ethnology
Young Adult
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Summary:In the USA, public health and medical professional associations have identied police violence as an issue of concern, calling for better monitoring of injuries caused by use of force and more research about the health consequences of police practices.13 A number of recent papers by public health scholars have addressed these issues: Some have examined the ways in which racially discriminatory policing inuences health and community cohesion.4,5 Others have explored various options for using public health monitoring systems to provide better data to epidemiologists and the public on police-related fatalities and gunshot injuries.68 Still, others have produced analyses of existing injury and mortality data derived from hospital records and death certicates.911
ISSN:1099-3460
1468-2869
DOI:10.1007/s11524-016-0076-3