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Violent Death Rates: The United States Compared To Other High-Income Oecd Countries, 2010, Erin Grinshteyn, David Hemenway
Violent Death Rates: The United States Compared To Other High-Income Oecd Countries, 2010, Erin Grinshteyn, David Hemenway
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Background: Violent death is a serious problem in the US. Previous research showing US rates of violent death compared with other high-income countries used data that are more than a decade old.
Methods: We examined 2010 mortality data obtained from the WHO for populous, high-income countries (n=23). Death rates per 100,000 population were calculated for each country and for the aggregation of all non-US countries overall and by age and sex. Tests of significance were performed using Poisson and negative binomial regressions. Results: US homicide rates were 7.0 times higher than other high-income countries, driven by a gun homicide rate …
The Reply, Erin Grinshteyn, David Hemenway
The Reply, Erin Grinshteyn, David Hemenway
Nursing and Health Professions Faculty Research and Publications
The Reply. A letter to the editor in The American Journal of Medicine, Volume 129, Issue 8, 2016, Page e143 regarding Unintentional firearm deaths among children in the United States.