Motor Vehicle Crashes and Alcohol Among American Indians and Alaska Natives
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چکیده
The American Indian population, made up of well over 300 tribes, now numbers more than 1.5 million or over 0.6 percent of the U.S. population. Throughout the recent past, it has been a rapidly growing population that has consistently had a birth rate twice that of the rest of the U.S. population (IHS 1988; May 1988; Broudy and May 1983). Because of this high fertility, the median age of the Indian population was 22.9 in 1980, compared to 30.3 for the overaIl U.S. population. The median age of the population living on reservation was 19 years in 1980 (U.S. Congress 1986). The young age composition has definite implications for the study of both motor vehicle injuries and alcohol.
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