TY - JOUR
T1 - Urban-rural dichotomy of burn patients in Georgia and South Carolina
T2 - A geographic information system study: Retracted
AU - Mian, Mohammad Anwarul Huq
AU - Haque, Akhlaque
AU - Mullins, Robert Fred
AU - Fiebiger, Barbara
AU - Hassan, Zaheed
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 by the American Burn Association.
PY - 2015/10/1
Y1 - 2015/10/1
N2 - This study uses a 4-year (2006-2009) cross-section of epidemiological burn injury data from Georgia and South Carolina. The results from the study show that the burn patients from rural areas differ from their urban counterparts in terms of relative burn injury incidence. Younger population groups that live in lower socioeconomic status communities especially in the urban areas are at a higher risk than other population groups. The differences in the types of burns in the urban-rural communities can give us further insights to the patients' association with injury sites. The presence of fewer burn injury treatment and care facilities in rural areas and the high incidence of burn in low-income communities in the urban areas should carry important policy implications for health planners. This study will enable researchers to understand the epidemiology of burn injuries at the local and national levels in the United States. It also carries important implications for using Geographic Information Systems for studying spatial distribution of burn injuries for disaster planning and mitigation of burn injuries.
AB - This study uses a 4-year (2006-2009) cross-section of epidemiological burn injury data from Georgia and South Carolina. The results from the study show that the burn patients from rural areas differ from their urban counterparts in terms of relative burn injury incidence. Younger population groups that live in lower socioeconomic status communities especially in the urban areas are at a higher risk than other population groups. The differences in the types of burns in the urban-rural communities can give us further insights to the patients' association with injury sites. The presence of fewer burn injury treatment and care facilities in rural areas and the high incidence of burn in low-income communities in the urban areas should carry important policy implications for health planners. This study will enable researchers to understand the epidemiology of burn injuries at the local and national levels in the United States. It also carries important implications for using Geographic Information Systems for studying spatial distribution of burn injuries for disaster planning and mitigation of burn injuries.
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U2 - 10.1097/BCR.0000000000000025
DO - 10.1097/BCR.0000000000000025
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84954189431
SN - 1559-047X
VL - 36
SP - e267-e273
JO - Journal of Burn Care and Research
JF - Journal of Burn Care and Research
IS - 5
ER -