Historical Redlining and Present-Day Nonsuicide Firearm Fatalities.

Autor:	Dholakia A; Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, and Department of Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts (A.D., K.J.B.)., Burdick KJ; Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, and Department of Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts (A.D., K.J.B.)., Kreatsoulas C; Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts (C.K.)., Monuteaux MC; Division of Emergency Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (M.C.M.)., Tsai J; Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, and St. Joseph's Medical Center in Stockton, Stockton, California (J.T.)., Subramanian SV; Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts (S.V.S.)., Fleegler EW; Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Departments of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (E.W.F.).
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Annals of internal medicine [Ann Intern Med] 2024 May; Vol. 177 (5), pp. 592-597. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Apr 23.
DOI:	10.7326/M23-2496
Abstrakt:	Background: Redlining began in the 1930s with the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC); this discriminatory practice limited mortgage availability and reinforced concentrated poverty that still exists today. It is important to understand the potential health implications of this federally sanctioned segregation. Objective: To examine the relationship between historical redlining policies and present-day nonsuicide firearm fatalities. Design: Maps from the HOLC were overlaid with incidence of nonsuicide firearm fatalities from 2014 to 2022. A multilevel negative binomial regression model tested the association between modern-day firearm fatalities and HOLC historical grading (A ["best"] to D ["hazardous"]), controlling for year, HOLC area-level demographics, and state-level factors as fixed effects and a random intercept for city. Incidence rates (IRs) per 100 000 persons, incidence rate ratios (IRRs), and adjusted IRRs (aIRRs) for each HOLC grade were estimated using A-rated areas as the reference. Setting: 202 cities with areas graded by the HOLC in the 1930s. Participants: Population of the 8597 areas assessed by the HOLC. Measurements: Nonsuicide firearm fatalities. Results: From 2014 to 2022, a total of 41 428 nonsuicide firearm fatalities occurred in HOLC-graded areas. The firearm fatality rate increased as the HOLC grade progressed from A to D. In A-graded areas, the IR was 3.78 (95% CI, 3.52 to 4.05) per 100 000 persons per year. In B-graded areas, the IR, IRR, and aIRR relative to A areas were 7.43 (CI, 7.24 to 7.62) per 100 000 persons per year, 2.12 (CI, 1.94 to 2.32), and 1.42 (CI, 1.30 to 1.54), respectively. In C-graded areas, these values were 11.24 (CI, 11.08 to 11.40) per 100 000 persons per year, 3.78 (CI, 3.47 to 4.12), and 1.90 (CI, 1.75 to 2.07), respectively. In D-graded areas, these values were 16.26 (CI, 16.01 to 16.52) per 100 000 persons per year, 5.51 (CI, 5.05 to 6.02), and 2.07 (CI, 1.90 to 2.25), respectively. Limitation: The Gun Violence Archive relies on media coverage and police reports. Conclusion: Discriminatory redlining policies from 80 years ago are associated with nonsuicide firearm fatalities today. Primary Funding Source: Fred Lovejoy Housestaff Research and Education Fund. Competing Interests: Disclosures: Disclosures can be viewed at www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOfInterestForms.do?msNum=M23-2496.
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