Spatial distribution of child pedestrian injuries along census tract boundaries: Implications for identifying area-based correlates.

ABSTRACT: Census tracts are often used to investigate area-based correlates of a variety of health outcomes. This approach has been shown to be valuable in understanding the ways that health is shaped by place and to design appropriate interventions that account for community-level processes. Following this line of inquiry, it is common in the study of pedestrian injuries to aggregate the point level locations of these injuries to the census tracts in which they occur. Such aggregation enables investigation of the relationships between a range of socioeconomic variables and areas of notably high or low incidence. This study reports on the spatial distribution of child pedestrian injuries in a mid-sized U.S. city over a three-year period. Utilizing a combination of geospatial approaches, Near Analysi

SUBMITTER: Curtis JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5470688 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature