Residency Status: Non-Immigrant Youth and Injuries

residency status: Guttmann and colleague Natasha Saunders, a pediatrician at Sick Kids, looked at Ontario health data for people age 24 and younger from 2008 to 2012, according to Globe and Mail. The researchers defined immigrants as those with permanent residency or those born to a mother with permanent residency status. To do the study, Dr. They found the rate of unintentional firearm injuries was 12.4 per 100,000 among non-immigrant male youth, compared to 7.2 per 100,000 among their male immigrant peers. The difference between the two groups in terms of assault-related injuries was not statistically significant, according to the authors. The rate of assault-related firearm injuries was 3.5 per 100,000 among male non-immigrant youth, compared to 5.5 per 100,000 in the immigrant group. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.