Child maltreatment data in the state of New Mexico across space and time.

ABSTRACT: Child maltreatment is a serious public health problem. Previous research demonstrates that child maltreatment clusters in low-income, racially homogenous neighborhoods. Little is known, however, about the structural correlates of spatial risk in small areas such as census tracts. Here we present additional information regarding the data and methods used in the recent article published in Child Abuse & Neglect entitled "Variability and stability in child maltreatment risk across time and space and its association with neighborhood social & housing vulnerability in New Mexico: A Bayesian space-time model" [1]. The present dataset merges child maltreatment data from the New Mexico Department of Public Health with multiple sources of publicly available data to create a novel public heal

SUBMITTER: Barboza G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7300143 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature