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May. 15th, 2022 05:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sigmalephDoes anyone have access to the full text of this paper (and would be willing to send me a copy)? I've seen the claim "homicide is the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the United States" around in The Discourse, for which this seems to be the origin, and I have some doubts I'd rather check out
In particular, the abstract says "There were 3.62 homicides per 100,000 live births among females who were pregnant or within 1 year postpartum, 16% higher than homicide prevalence among nonpregnant and nonpostpartum females of reproductive age (3.12 deaths/100,000 population, P<.05)", where one figure is per live births and the other per population, which stands out as an odd choice for two numbers you intend to compare. I'm also curious to what extent this is an effect of disaggregating non-homicide causes of death (e.g. compare this chart from the CDC, where homicide is the third or fifth cause of death for the given age range and "unintentional injury" is the leading one, by a pretty significant factor; it seems to me that it'd require separating "unintentional injury" into several smaller factors for the math to work out)
