JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association
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To improve understanding of the patterns of injury morbidity and mortality in an urban African-American population. ⋯ Interpersonal intentional injury occurs frequently in this population. More attention needs to be paid to prevention and intervention to reduce the toll of this violence. The high prevalence of injury in certain age strata may make general, population-based efforts for injury prevention more efficient than efforts targeted to subgroups.