Interpersonal violence-related injuries in an African-American community in Philadelphia

A.R. Wishner, D.F. Schwarz, J.A. Grisso, J.H. Holmes and R.L. Sutton

American Journal of Public Health, 1991, vol. 81, issue 11, 1474-1476

Abstract: Violence has been recognized as a significant health problem. This study describes fatal and nonfatal interpersonal violence-related injury events over 1 year in an indigent African-American community in Philadelphia. Information on inquiries was collected from emergency rooms, the Office of the Medical Examiner, and death certificate files. For persons aged 15 through 49 years, violence-related injury rates surpassed any other injury type. The overall violence-related injury rate was 28.7 per thousand population. Interpersonal violence-related injuries were important for the 0- to 4-year age group (9.19 injuries per 1000 population), and continued as a major cause of morbidity through age 59 (12.08 injuries per 1000 population). For more than half of the events, information from the emergency room chart was sufficient only to categorize the incident as a ''fight'' or that it was intentional; no further classification was possible.

Date: 1991
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