Safety in numbers: are major cities the safest places in the United States?

ABSTRACT:

Study objectives

Many US cities have experienced population reductions, often blamed on crime and interpersonal injury. Yet the overall injury risk in urban areas compared with suburban and rural areas has not been fully described. We begin to investigate this evidence gap by looking specifically at injury-related mortality risk, determining the risk of all injury death across the rural-urban continuum.

Methods

A cross-sectional time-series analysis of US injury deaths from 1999 to 2006 in counties classified according to the rural-urban continuum was conducted. Negative binomial generalized estimating equations and tests for trend were completed. Total injury deaths were the primary comparator, whereas differences by mechanism and age were also explored.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Myers SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3993997 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature