Disproportionately higher unintentional injury mortality among Alaska Native people, 2006–2015
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Disproportionately higher unintentional injury mortality among Alaska Native people, 2006–2015
We compared rates of unintentional injury (UI) deaths (total and by injury category) among Alaska Native (AN) people to rates of U.S. White (USW) and Alaska White (AKW) populations during 2006-2015. The mortality data for AN and AKW populations were obtained from Alaska Bureau of Vital Statistics and USW mortality data were obtained from WISQARS, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention on...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Circumpolar Health
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2242-3982
DOI: 10.1080/22423982.2017.1422671