IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jijerp/v12y2015i12p15009-15604d60241.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Socio Economic Status and Traumatic Brain Injury amongst Pediatric Populations: A Spatial Analysis in Greater Vancouver

Author

Listed:
  • Ofer Amram

    (Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada)

  • Nadine Schuurman

    (Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada)

  • Ian Pike

    (Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada; BC Injury Research and Prevention Unit, Child and Family Research Institute, BC Children’s Hospital, Vancouver V6H 3V4, Canada)

  • Natalie L Yanchar

    (Department of Surgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada)

  • Michael Friger

    (Faculty of Health Science, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva 8410501, Israel)

  • Paul B. McBeth

    (Departments of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, AB T6G 2R3, Canada)

  • Donald Griesdale

    (Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada)

Abstract

Introduction : Within Canada, injuries are the leading cause of death amongst children fourteen years of age and younger, and also one of the leading causes of morbidity. Low Socio Economic Status (SES) seems to be a strong indicator of a higher prevalence of injuries. This study aims to identify hotspots for pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and examines the relationship between SES and pediatric TBI rates in greater Vancouver, British Columbia (BC), Canada. Methods : Pediatric TBI data from the BC Trauma Registry (BCTR) was used to identify all pediatric TBI patients admitted to BC hospitals between the years 2000 and 2013. Spatial analysis was used to identify hotspots for pediatric TBI. Multivariate analysis was used to distinguish census variables that were correlated with rates of injury. Results : Six hundred and fifty three severe pediatric TBI injuries occurred within the BC Lower Mainland between 2000 and 2013. High rates of injury were concentrated in the East, while low rate clusters were most common in the West of the region (more affluent neighborhoods). A low level of education was the main predictor of a high rate of injury (OR = 1.13, 95% CI = 1.03–1.23, p -Value 0.009). Conclusion : While there was a clear relationship between different SES indicators and pediatric TBI rates in greater Vancouver, income-based SES indicators did not serve as good predictors within this region.

Suggested Citation

  • Ofer Amram & Nadine Schuurman & Ian Pike & Natalie L Yanchar & Michael Friger & Paul B. McBeth & Donald Griesdale, 2015. "Socio Economic Status and Traumatic Brain Injury amongst Pediatric Populations: A Spatial Analysis in Greater Vancouver," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 12(12), pages 1-11, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:12:y:2015:i:12:p:15009-15604:d:60241
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/12/12/15009/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/12/12/15009/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Ofer Amram & Blake Byron Walker & Nadine Schuurman & Ian Pike & Natalie Yanchar, 2016. "Disparities in Paediatric Injury Mortality between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Populations in British Columbia, 2001–2009," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 13(7), pages 1-9, July.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:12:y:2015:i:12:p:15009-15604:d:60241. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.