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Identifying vulnerable populations to death and injuries from residential fires
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Objective: This study proposes and evaluates the theory that people who are susceptible to injury in residential fires are not susceptible to death in residential fires and vice versa. It is proposed that the population vulnerable to death in residential fires can be proxied by ‘frailty’, which is measured as age–gender adjusted fatality rates due to natural causes. Methods: This study uses an ecological approach and controls for exposure to estimate the vulnerability of different population groups to death and injury in residential fires. It allows fatalities and injuries to be estimated by different models. Results: Frailty explains fire-related death in adults while not explaining injuries, which is consistent with the idea that deaths and injuries affect disjoint populations. Conclusions: Deaths and injuries in fire are drawn from different populations. People who are susceptible to dying in fires are unlikely to be injured in fires, and the people who are susceptible to injury are unlikely to die in fires.
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“Additionally, there has been a lack of comprehensive analysis to investigate the relationships between fire incidents in impoverished neighbourhoods [29] and the impacts of decades of deregulation, privatization, and austerity measures within public services [30].”
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- Authors
- Gilbert, S. W., & Butry, D. T.
- Affiliations
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (US)
- Corresponding author
- Gilbert, Stanley W
- Venue
- Injury Prevention
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2017-08-03
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 358-364
- ISSN
- 1353-8047 (ISSN-L)
- 1475-5785
- OpenAlex
- W2742679178
- Cited by
- 41
- References
- 16
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 3
- FWCI
- 2.32
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Injury Prevention (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HighWire Press Open Archive (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Surgery › Burn Injury Management and Outcomes
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Education, Safety, and Science Studies
- Keywords
- house fires, fire-related deaths, fire injuries, vulnerability, frailty, injury susceptibility, population heterogeneity
- MeSH terms
- Frailty, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Burns, Child, Child, Preschool, Female, Fires, Housing, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Male, Middle Aged, Population Surveillance, Logistic Models, Age Distribution, Sex Distribution, Vulnerable Populations, Young Adult
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