Quantifying Disparities in Urban Firearm Violence by Race and Place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: A Cartographic Study

• DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2016.303620
• Publication Date: 2017-01-19T20:57:57Z
• Authors: Jessica H. Beard; Christopher N. Mo...; Sara F. Jacoby; Beidi Dong; Randi Smith; Carrie A. Sims; Douglas J. Wiebe
• Keywords: Adult; Male; Philadelphia; Firearms; Urban Population; Censuses; Violence; White People; Black or African American; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Residence Characteristics; Risk Factors; 11. Sustainability; Income; Humans; Female; Wounds, Gunshot

To describe variability in the burden of firearm violence by race, income, and place an urban context.We used Philadelphia Police Department data from 2013 to 2014 calculate assault rates within census block groups for both victim residence event locations, stratifying race group income. We cartographic modeling determine variations incidence neighborhood place.The overall rate was 5.0 times higher (95% confidence interval [CI] = 4.5, 5.6) Black people compared with White people. Firearm were among across all incomes. Relative risk reached 15.8 CI 10.7, 23.2) residents highest-income when high-income individuals. events tended occur low-income areas concentrated several "hot spot" locations high proportions residents.Profound disparity exposure exists Philadelphia. substantially more likely than sustain assault, regardless