@article{ref1,
title="Unintentional injury hospitalizations and socio-economic status in areas with a high percentage of First Nations identity residents",
journal="Health reports",
year="2014",
author="Bougie, Evelyne and Fines, Philippe and Oliver, Lisa N. and Kohen, Dafna E.",
volume="25",
number="2",
pages="3-12",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Few national studies of hospitalizations due to injuries among the First Nations population have been conducted. DATA AND METHODS: Based on 2004/2005 to 2009/2010 data from the Discharge Abstract Database, this study examines associations between unintentional injury hospitalizations, socio-economic status and location relative to an urban core in Dissemination Areas (DAs) with a high percentage of First Nations identity residents versus a low percentage of Aboriginal identity residents. RESULTS: Unintentional injury hospitalization rates were higher in the less affluent and the most remote DAs. When DAs with the same socio-economic status and location were compared, the risk of hospitalizations was greater in high-percentage First Nations identity DAs relative to low-percentage Aboriginal identity DAs. INTERPRETATION: Socio-economic conditions and remote location accounted for some, but not all, of the differences in unintentional injury hospitalizations between high-percentage First Nations identity and low-percentage Aboriginal identity DAs. This suggests that characteristics not measured in this analysis-such as environmental, behavioural or other factors-play an additional role in DA-level unintentional injury hospitalization risk.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0840-6529",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}