TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1998//
TI  - The socio-economic and demographic context of children's emergency injury visits in Helsinki in 1991-1994
JO  - European journal of emergency medicine
A1  - Ahlamaa-Tuompo, J.
A1  - Linna, M.
SP  - 429
EP  - 440
VL  - 5
IS  - 4
N2  - The aim is to study the association between age- and diagnosis-specific trauma visit rates and socio-economic and demographic variables in the city of Helsinki, Finland. A total of 19,772 home and leisure injury visits were analysed by random effects (REM) and Poisson regression models. Visit rates were calculated for age- and diagnosis-specific groups for each of the city's 33 health districts using the corresponding age-specific census data. In addition, the areas were ranked into three groups according to a socio-economic index measure. The annual visit rates of the three groups were calculated and the effect of distance on visit rates by socio-economic groups was analysed. In the case of pre-school children no correlation was found between explanatory variables and trauma visit rates. In the school-aged children group distance from the hospital (p < 0.001) correlated with childhood ambulatory visit rates. We found a rather modest difference in children's visit rates between unequal socio-economic areas. However, the demand for care was elastic for travelling distance (p < 0.05) in poorer suburbs but not in more affluent areas in the case of school-aged children. The probability of significant inequalities in children's trauma visit rates was small in Helsinki during 1991-94.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0969-9546
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -