Burns
Volume 35, Issue 8 , Pages 1133-1141 , December 2009

A small-area population analysis of socioeconomic status and incidence of severe burn/fire-related injury in British Columbia, Canada

  • Nathaniel J. Bell

      Affiliations

    • Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Dr., Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 250 954 0850; fax: +1 778 782 5841.
    • ,
  • Nadine Schuurman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Dr., Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6
    • ,
  • S. Morad Hameed

      Affiliations

    • Division of General Surgery, University of British Columbia, Canada
    • Vancouver General Hospital, Canada

,Accepted 28 April 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2009.04.028

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