Table 3 Domestic Violence and Abuse (DVA) related Emergency Room (ER) visits and inequalities index scores by marginalization indices and quintiles, 2012–2016 (n = 10,124)
From: Domestic violence and abuse related emergency room visits in Ontario, Canada
Marginalization Indices | Annual rate per 100,000 persons (no. of cases) | Slope Index of Inequality (95% CI) | Relative Index of Inequality (95% CI) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Q1a | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Q5b | |||
Instability | 9.4 (1354) | 11.5 (1422) | 15.6 (1817) | 19.7 (2343) | 23.4 (3188) | −18.6 (− 22.7 to −14.5) †| 3.9 (2.6 to 5.7) †|
Deprivation | 8.7 (1010) | 10.6 (1313) | 13.9 (1741) | 15.9 (2071) | 27.8 (3989) | − 22.4 (− 38.9 to − 6.0)†| 5.9 (0.7 to 47.2) |
Dependency | 14.2 (2415) | 15.8 (2026) | 17.2 (2006) | 16.7 (1811) | 16.2 (1866) | − 2.8 (− 7.4 to 1.9) | 1.2 (0.9 to 1.6) |
Ethnic Concentration | 20.2 (2079) | 19.0 (2035) | 14.7 (1725) | 12.6 (1657) | 14.6 (2628) | 8.2 (−2.6 to 19.1) | 0.6 (0.3 to 1.2) |