Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1992, 75, 1254.
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DAVID LESTER Richard Stockton State College Summary.-Infant mortahty rates, a measure of the quality of medical care, was associated with homicide rates, but not suicide rates, over nations and over the American states.
Doerner and Speir (1786) suggested that the regional variation in hornicide rates might be explained by regional variations in medical resources, since the poorer medical care is the more likely victims of assault are to die. They suggested using hospital beds and physicians per capita as indices of medical care, but infant mortality might be another good measure of a region's quahty of medical care. To explore this, the infant mortality rates of the 48 continental states of the USA in 1980 were correlated with the homicide rate using a data set already established (Lester, 1788). The Pearson r was 0.56 (p
O Perceptual and Motor
SluLls 1992
MEDICAL RESOURCES AND SUICIDE PREVENTION
'
DAVID LESTER Richard Stockton State College Summary.-Infant mortahty rates, a measure of the quality of medical care, was associated with homicide rates, but not suicide rates, over nations and over the American states.
Doerner and Speir (1786) suggested that the regional variation in hornicide rates might be explained by regional variations in medical resources, since the poorer medical care is the more likely victims of assault are to die. They suggested using hospital beds and physicians per capita as indices of medical care, but infant mortality might be another good measure of a region's quahty of medical care. To explore this, the infant mortality rates of the 48 continental states of the USA in 1980 were correlated with the homicide rate using a data set already established (Lester, 1788). The Pearson r was 0.56 (p
