20 Years of Research on Socioeconomic Inequality and Children's—Unintentional Injuries Understanding the Cause-Specific Evidence at Hand
Table 7
Multilevel studies for childhood burn, fall, poisoning, and drowning injuries: summary of methodological features and results ().
Author & year country (city/region)
Outcome/sB, F, P, D
Age group/s data source
SES measure
Analysis covariates
Results: the level of 95% is used for all confidence intervals (CI)
Kim et al. 2007 South Korea (whole country)
D, F Deaths
0–5 years R: birth and death registers
Father’s occupation, mother’s education for individual level, deprivation index for districts (5 levels)
Multilevel poisson regression Sex
Deprivation showed a clear positive relationship with mortality by drowning (RR=1.7—estimated from figure—for 4th quintile compared to first quintile), but not by falls, after controlling for individual-level variables
