Modifiable Neighborhood Features Associated With Adolescent Homicide.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Homicide is a leading cause of adolescent mortality. To our knowledge, relatively little has been studied in terms of the association between environmental neighborhood features, such as streets, buildings, and natural surroundings, and severe violent injury among youth.

Objective

To assess associations between environmental neighborhood features and adolescent homicide in order to identify targets for future place-based interventions.

Design, setting, and participants

Population-based case-control study conducted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from April 15, 2008, to March 31, 2014. We identified adolescents who died by homicide at 13 to 20 years of age from 2010 to 2012 while residing in Philadelphia. We used incidence-density sampling and random-digit di

SUBMITTER: Culyba AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4936414 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature