Citation

Laflamme L. Inj. Control Safety Promot. 2001; 8(3): 149-153..

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(Copyright © 2001, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

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Abstract

As is common in the public health arena in general, the literature concerned with social differencces in injury risks is dominated by individual-level studies. Though numerous, these studies are presominantly descriptive, mainly concerned with injury risk distribution across socio-economic groups (measured in terms of social class, education, income, occupation or ethnicity) or with persons in various socio-economic circumstances (e.g. the unemployed, single parents, multi-child families).

There is a great need to improve our understanding of the mechanisms underlyng social patterning of injury risks. Injury research still lacks explanatory models for and empirical evidence on how contextual and individual factors interact in injury causation. Such research may be of considerable hel in understanding social diffferentials in injury risks and, perhaps most importantly, the differential bebefits of preventive strategies.