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. 2004 Apr;94(4):633-9.
doi: 10.2105/ajph.94.4.633.

Social disparities in housing and related pediatric injury: a multilevel study

Edmond D Shenassa  1 , Amy Stubbendick, Mary Jean Brown
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Social disparities in housing and related pediatric injury: a multilevel study

Edmond D Shenassa et al. Am J Public Health. 2004 Apr.

Abstract

Objectives: We conducted an ecologic analysis to determine whether housing characteristics mediate the associations between concentration of poverty and pediatric injury and between concentration of racial minorities and pediatric injury and whether the association between housing conditions and pediatric injury is independent of other risks.

Methods: We created a hierarchical data set by linking individual-level data for pediatric injury with census data. Effect sizes were estimated with a Poisson model.

Results: After adjustment for owner occupancy and the percentage of housing built before 1950, the association between concentration of poverty and pediatric injury was attenuated. For concentration of racial minorities, only percentage of owner occupancy had some mediating effect. In hierarchical models, housing characteristics remained independent and significant predictors of pediatric injury.

Conclusions: The association between community characteristics and pediatric injury is partially mediated by housing conditions. Risk of pediatric injury associated with housing conditions is independent of other risks.

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Old housing and owner occupancy as mediators of risk of (a) falls and (b) burns associated with poverty. aThe estimate is significantly different from that of the crude model.
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Old housing and owner occupancy as mediators of risk of (a) falls and (b) burns associated with poverty. aThe estimate is significantly different from that of the crude model.
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Old housing and owner occupancy as mediators of risk of (a) falls and (b) burns associated with minority concentration. aThe estimate is significantly different from that of the crude model.
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FIGURE 2—
Old housing and owner occupancy as mediators of risk of (a) falls and (b) burns associated with minority concentration. aThe estimate is significantly different from that of the crude model.
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