TY - JOUR PY - 2018// TI - The impact of neighborhood socioeconomic disparities on injury JO - International journal of public health A1 - Goldman, Sharon A1 - Radomislensky, Irina A1 - Ziv, Arnona A1 - Peleg, Kobi SP - 855 EP - 863 VL - 63 IS - 7 N2 - OBJECTIVES: To examine the relationship between neighborhood socioeconomic level (NSEL) and injury-related hospitalization.

METHODS: The National Trauma Registry (INTR) and the National Population Census (NPC), including NSEL, were linked by individual identity number. Age-adjusted logistic regression predicted injury hospitalization. Mantel-Haenszel  X2 was used for linear trends. NSEL was divided into 20 clusters.

RESULTS: The population comprised 7,412,592 residents, of which 125,829 (1.7%) were hospitalized due to injury. The injury hospitalization rate was at least 42 per 10,000 per year. Except for the very low SEL, an inverse relationship between NSEL and all-cause injury was found: 46.1/10,000 in cluster 3 compared to 22.9/10,000 in cluster 20. Hip fracture-related hospitalizations among ages 65 + decreased as SEL increased (2.19% o in cluster 2 compared to 0.95% in cluster 19). In comparison with Jews, non-Jews were 1.5 times more likely to have an injury-related hospitalization [OR 1.5 (95% CI 1.50-1.55)].

CONCLUSIONS: The INTR and the NPC were successfully linked providing individual and injury hospitalization data. The outcomes confirm the strong relationship between injury mechanism and NSEL.

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LA - en SN - 1661-8556 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00038-018-1119-1 ID - ref1 ER -