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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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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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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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Experiences of violence in daily life among adults in California: a population-representative survey

Injury Epidemiology, 2022
Background Research on violence exposure emphasizes discrete acute events such as direct and witnessed victimization. Little is known about the broad range of experiences of violence (EVs) in daily life. This study assesses the prevalence and patterns of
Garen J. Wintemute, Amanda J. Aubel, Rocco Pallin, Julia P. Schleimer, Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz   +4 more
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Clinical strategies for reducing firearm suicide

Injury Epidemiology, 2021
Suicide is complex, with psychiatric, cultural, and socioeconomic roots. Though mental illnesses like depression contribute to risk for suicide, access to lethal means such as firearms is considered a key risk factor for suicide, and half of suicides in ...
Rocco Pallin, Amy Barnhorst
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Guns, violence, politics: the gyre widens

Injury Epidemiology, 2021
Inter-related sustained upward trends in firearm purchasing, violence, and political extremism are converging to put the USA at risk for disaster and threaten our future as a democracy.
Garen J. Wintemute
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Firearm purchasing and firearm violence during the coronavirus pandemic in the United States: a cross-sectional study

Injury Epidemiology, 2021
Background Firearm violence is a significant public health problem in the United States. A surge in firearm purchasing following the onset of the coronavirus pandemic may have contributed to an increase in firearm violence.
Julia P. Schleimer, Christopher D. McCort, Aaron B. Shev, Veronica A. Pear, Elizabeth Tomsich, Alaina De Biasi, Shani Buggs, Hannah S. Laqueur, Garen J. Wintemute   +8 more
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Voicing narratives of structural violence in interpersonal firearm violence research and prevention in the United States

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
Violence is defined as “the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, that either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological ...
Shani A.L. Buggs, Julia J. Lund, Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz   +2 more
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Daycare shooting in Thailand: Time to address firearm violence as a global health issue

Public Health Challenges, 2023
On 6 October 2022, a daycare shooting incident happened in Thailand. It is the deadliest mass shooting in Southeast Asian (SEA) countries and one of the many incidents contributing to the global epidemic of firearm‐related preventable violence.
Yasmine Syifa Nabila Budi, Fabiola Cathleen, Manatee Jitanan, Oraphan Butkatunyoo, Adriana Viola Miranda   +4 more
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Firearm suicide decedents in the Republic of Ireland, 1980–2005 [PDF]

, 2010
Objectives To compare the sociodemographic characteristics of firearms suicide decedents and other suicide decedents in the Republic of Ireland between 1980 and 2005.
Kola, Susanna, S. Kola, K. Sarma, Sarma, K.   +3 more
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