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Epidemiology of fatal and nonfatal community firearm violence in New York City, 2019–2023 [PDF]

Injury Epidemiology
Background Endemic levels of community firearm violence in United States cities disproportionately burden certain sociodemographic groups. Nonfatal injuries are an understudied aspect of firearm violence.
Loren L Adams, Vanya Jones, Daniel W Webster, Michael R Desjardins, Cassandra K Crifasi   +4 more
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Holding Sweden hostage: firearm-related violence [PDF]

Forensic Sciences Research, 2019
Swedish as well as foreign publications have reported a sharp increase in firearm-related violence in Sweden. None of these publications, however, combined official statistics from the Swedish police, the National Council for Crime Prevention (NCCP), and
Ardavan Khoshnood
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Evaluating a Digital Intervention to Reduce Aggression and Pro-Firearm Violence Attitudes Among Young Black Males: Pretest-Posttest Feasibility Study [PDF]

JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting
BackgroundPediatric and adolescent firearm injuries and fatalities in the United States have surged to levels not seen since the mid-1990s, marking a critical public health inflection point.
Chuka Emezue, Jessica Bishop-Royse, Andrew Froilan, Tara Wilkes, Niranjan S Karnik, Wrenetha A Julion   +5 more
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Firearm Violence and Health in Policymaker Discourse: Mixed Methods Social Media Analysis [PDF]

JMIR Formative Research
BackgroundSince 2019, firearm violence has remained the leading cause of death for US children and adolescents aged 1‐19 years. This crisis has spurred action from policymakers, health professionals, and advocates.
Vivek A Ashok, William J K Vervilles, Katherine S Kellom, Anyun Chatterjee, Isabella Ntigbu, Okechi Boms, Andrea Szabo, Joel A Fein, Therese S Richmond, Jonathan Purtle, Matthew D Kearney, Zachary F Meisel   +11 more
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Examining associations between street vegetation and child firearm violence at microgeographic locations in 3 US cities: a case-control study [PDF]

BMC Pediatrics
Background Firearm violence is a leading cause of death among U.S. children under age 18. Urban vegetation, a vital component of the living environment, has been found to influence firearm violence, yet the relationship between different types of street ...
Zihan Lin, Gregory A. Wellenius, Jonathan Jay   +2 more
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Engaging Stakeholders With Professional or Lived Experience to Improve Firearm Violence Lexicon Development [PDF]

JMIR Formative Research
Framing the public health burden of firearm violence should include people with secondary exposure to firearm violence beyond acute bodily injury, yet such data are limited. Electronic health record clinical notes, when leveraged through natural language
Nicole Cook, Frances M Biel, Kerry Ann Bet, Marion R Sills, Ali Al Bataineh, Pedro Rivera, Anna R Templeton, Natalie Cartwright   +7 more
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Vehicle traffic as a determinant of community firearm violence [PDF]

Injury Epidemiology
Background Urban design sets the conditions under which individuals encounter one another. It is modifiable and can be an important intervention point for firearm assault prevention.
Emma L. Gause, Suzanne McLone, Christina Dalton, Christopher Morrison, Jonathan Jay   +4 more
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Identifying Firearm Violence Exposure in Primary Care Clinical Notes: Protocol for Developing a National Language Processing Text Classifier [PDF]

JMIR Research Protocols
BackgroundStructured data codes capture acute bodily injury from firearm violence but do not necessarily describe follow-up care from bodily injury and secondary exposure to firearm violence (eg, witnessing a shooting, being ...
Natalie Carwright, Frances M Biel, Megan Hoopes, Ali Al Bataineh, Pedro Rivera, Kerry Bet, Nicole Cook   +6 more
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Long gun violence in California versus Texas: How legislation can reduce firearm violence [PDF]

Surgery Open Science
Introduction: Long guns (LGs) are uniquely implicated in firearm violence and mass shootings. On 1/1/2019 California (CA) raised the minimum age to purchase LGs from 18 to 21. This study aimed to evaluate the incidence of LG violence in CA vs. Texas (TX),
Jonathan Shipley, BS, Areg Grigorian, MD, Lourdes Swentek, MD, Cristobal Barrios, MD, Catherine Kuza, MD, Jeffrey Santos, MD, Jeffry Nahmias, MD, MHPE   +6 more
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Prevalence of exposure to someone else’s firearm violence, threats, and risky behavior among a national sample of young people in the United States [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
This article provides prevalence rates for a wide range of types of exposure to someone else’s firearm violence, threats, and risky behavior among youth and young adults across several different demographic and structural characteristics.
Kimberly J. Mitchell, Victoria Banyard, Bruce G. Taylor, Elizabeth A. Mumford, Weiwei Liu, Heather A. Turner   +5 more
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