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Income, housing, and fire injuries: a census tract analysis.
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- Identifying and Assisting Burn Patients and Their Families With Needs Through Administration of an Assessment Tool on Admission.Journal of burn care & research : official publication of the American Burn Association · 2023Article
- Fire Risk Assessments of Informal Settlements Based on Fire Risk Index and Bayesian Network.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The effect of neighborhood Area Deprivation Index on residential burn injury severity.Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries · 2021Article
- Child Injury Prevention: It Is Time to Address the Determinants of Health.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Housing as a determinant of health equity: A conceptual model.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2019Review
- Domestic fire emergency escape plans among the aged in NSW, Australia: the impact of a fire safety home visit program.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Preventing deaths and injuries from house fires: a cost-benefit analysis of a community-based smoke alarm installation programme.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2018Article
- Neighborhood Factors and Fall-Related Injuries among Older Adults Seen by Emergency Medical Service Providers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Article
- Socio-demographic factors which significantly relate to the prediction of burns severity in children.International journal of burns and trauma · 2017Article
- Census-based socioeconomic indicators for monitoring injury causes in the USA: a review.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2015Review
- Changes in smoke alarm coverage following two fire department home visiting programs: what predicts success?Injury epidemiology · 2014Article
- More than just an eyesore: local insights and solutions on vacant land and urban health.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2013Article
- Building the School Attendance Boundary Information System (SABINS): Collecting, Processing, and Modeling K to 12 Educational Geography.Journal of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association · 2013Article
- Safety practices in relation to home ownership among urban Mexican immigrant families.Journal of community health · 2012Article
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Abstract
objectivesThis study investigates the social and demographic correlates of nonfatal structural fire injury rates for the civilian population for Philadelphia census tracts during 1993-2001.
methodsThe author analyzed 1,563 fire injuries by census tract using the 1990 census (STF 3) and unpublished data from the Office of the Fire Marshal of the Philadelphia Fire Department. Injury rates were calculated per 1,000 residents of a given census tract. Multiple regression was used to determine significant variables in predicting fire injuries in a given census tract over a nine-year period and interaction effects between two of these variables-age of housing and income.
resultsMultiple regression analysis indicates that older housing (prior to 1940), low income, the prevalence of vacant houses, and the ability to speak English have significant independent effects on fire injury rates in Philadelphia. In addition, the results show a significant interaction between older housing and low income.
conclusionsGiven the finding of very high rates of fire injuries in census tracts that are both low income and have older housing, fire prevention units can take preventative measures. Fire protection devices, especially smoke alarms, should be distributed in the neighborhoods most at risk. Multiple occupancy dwellings should have sprinkler systems and fire extinguishers. Laws concerning the maintenance of older rental housing need to be strictly enforced. Vacant houses should be effectively boarded up or renovated for residential use. Fire prevention material should be distributed in a number of languages to meet local needs.
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