Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Overpeck, Mary D
• Brenner, Ruth A
• Trumble, Ann C
• Trifiletti, Lara B
• Berendes, Heinz W

Titel

Risk Factors for Infant Homicide in the United States

Ist Teil von

• The New England journal of medicine, 1998-10, Vol.339 (17), p.1211-1216

Ort / Verlag

Boston, MA: Massachusetts Medical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

1998

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Homicide is the leading cause of infant deaths due to injury, accounting for almost one third of such deaths in 1996. 1 Among children and adolescents, homicides are most likely to occur in the first year of life, with similar or higher rates only during later adolescence. 1 – 4 More than 80 percent of documented homicides in very young children can be viewed as fatal child abuse, and there is strong evidence that both homicides and fatal cases of child abuse are undercounted. 5 – 7 In addition, almost one fourth of infants discharged from acute care facilities with disabilities due to injury are . . .