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An Ecological Approach To Understanding Lethal Violence In The Us Using Stream Analogy, Jacqueline Seals
An Ecological Approach To Understanding Lethal Violence In The Us Using Stream Analogy, Jacqueline Seals
Theses and Dissertations--Public Health (M.P.H. & Dr.P.H.)
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Background: Lethal violence, homicides and suicides, is a growing issue in the US. Historically homicides and suicides have been studied separately, but with stream analogy of lethal violence homicides and suicides are both currents of lethal violence, just branching in opposite directions. The purpose of this study is to understand which county-level factors increase risk of lethal violence.
Methods: This ecological study combined open-source datasets to create one dataset of socioeconomic risk factors of lethal violence. Counties with 10 or more lethal violent deaths were included (n=2751). Negative Binomial models examined the relationship between risk factors and …