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Firearm-related violence in the Caribbean is a complex systemic issue: how do we move towards a solution? [PDF]

Lancet Reg Health Am
Sobers NP, Agard J, Norville K, Fabre AS, Florquin N, Joseph C, Joseph M, Garcia-Joseph M, King R, Toppin PJ, Wong H, Anderson SG.   +11 more
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Firearm Injury Prevention: Understanding Firearm Policy Diffusion, 1993-2010 [PDF]

, 2014
Annually firearms kill more than 30,000 individuals and injure more than 50,000 individuals, resulting in costs of $45 million to over $1 billion in the United States. Traditionally firearms were addressed as a criminal justice problem, but for more than 30 years, public health and injury prevention specialists have worked to address the problem of ...
Rexing, Christen Jean
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Firearm Law and Policy

2019
Abstract In this chapter, the authors provide a review of firearm-related laws (i.e., federal, state, landmark legal cases), policies (e.g., “Stand Your Ground,” background checks, child access prevention), and programs (e.g., Project ChildSafe).
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Proxies for legal firearm prevalence [PDF]

Quantitative Marketing and Economics, 2022
Product acquisition policies define legal markets. Policy evaluations require data but prevalence data are not always available. We introduce Legal Firearm Prevalence (LFP), a direct behavioral measure based on the population of firearm licensees in ...
Jessica Jumee Kim, Kenneth C Wilbur, Wilbur Kenneth C   +2 more
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Longitudinal Associations Between Healthcare Resources, Policy, and Firearm-Related Suicide and Homicide from 2012 to 2016 [PDF]

Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2020
BackgroundFirearm-related violence is a leading cause of mortality in the United States (US). Prior research suggests that public policy plays a role in firearm mortality, but the role of healthcare resources (physicians, insurance coverage) within the ...
Kristen R Choi, Sae Takada
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The Link Between Mental Illness and Firearm Violence: Implications for Social Policy and Clinical Practice

Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 2017
The United States has substantially higher levels of firearm violence than most other developed countries. Firearm violence is a significant and preventable public health crisis.
John S Rozel, Edward P Mulvey
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Policies to Prevent Firearm Injuries

Health Affairs, 1993
Firearm-related injuries are a substantial public health problem. A wide array of policies designed to prevent these injuries have been discussed, but few are enacted into legislation. Even fewer have undergone scientific evaluation for their effectiveness. We offer a nosology for categorizing existing and future gun policies.
S P, Teret, G J, Wintemute
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Effectiveness of Firearms Policy

2020
With So Many Guns Out There, Is There Any Point to Gun Control? Yes. The evidence suggests that certain regulations have been effective in reducing gun use in crime.
Philip J. Cook, Kristin A. Goss
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Policy Research on Firearms and Violence

Health Affairs, 1993
The connection between firearms and violence has not received adequate research attention in the past. This paper proposes a research agenda that should explore (1) the effects of firearm use on the costs of violence; (2) the extent to which particular interventions can reduce the cost of violence by limiting use of firearms; and (3) the extent to ...
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