Characteristics of Neighborhoods Where Emergency Medical Services Encounter Children at Risk for Maltreatment.

CONCLUSION: This study showed that in Franklin County, Ohio, neighborhoods with high EMS utilization had a strong positive correlation with areas that had high rates of child maltreatment reports. We also identified four neighborhood characteristics that were independently associated with EMS encountering children at risk for maltreatment (risk factor: poverty; protective factors: residents with college educations, non-English speaking households, and residents maintaining the same residence as the previous year). PMID: 30703337 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Prehospital Emergency Care - Category: Endocrinology Tags: Prehosp Emerg Care Source Type: research