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Public health framing of firearm violence on local television news in Philadelphia, PA, USA: a quantitative content analysis

BMC Public Health
Background Firearm violence is an intensifying public health problem in the United States. News reports shape the way the public and policy makers understand and respond to health threats, including firearm violence.
Jessica H. Beard, Shannon Trombley, Tia Walker, Leah Roberts, Laura Partain, Jim MacMillan, Jennifer Midberry   +6 more
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Firearms, Violence, and the Potential Impact of Firearms Control [PDF]

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2004
This paper organizes the question of gun controls as violence policy under two quite different headings. The first issue to be discussed is the relationship between gun use and the death rate from violent crime. The second question is whether and how firearms control strategies might reduce the death rate from violence.
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Financial toxicity and firearm injury: exploring financial needs of participants in a hospital-based violence intervention program

Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open
Background Financial toxicity refers to financial hardship experienced because of illness or injury. Poverty is a known driver of community violence, but financial toxicity has not been studied in firearm violence survivors.
Ana M Reyes, Carlene McKenzie, Meghan Scott, Christopher R Haggerty, Julie Y Valenzuela   +4 more
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Preventing and mitigating fraudulent research participants in online qualitative violence and injury prevention research

BMJ Open Quality
Background Recruiting participants for injury and violence-related studies can be challenging, and online data collection opportunities can expand reach, offer convenience and extend a sense of safety to potential participants who may be in unsafe ...
Devon Ziminski, Esprene Liddell-Quintyn
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The domestic violence fatality review clearinghouse: introduction to a new National Data System with a focus on firearms

Injury Epidemiology, 2019
Background In the US more than 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men have experienced severe physical violence by an intimate partner. The most severe violence, violence that ends in death, disproportionately affects women. Current or former male intimate partners
Neil Websdale, Kathleen Ferraro, Steven D. Barger   +2 more
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Community firearm violence during extreme temperatures in the continental United States: A spatiotemporal epidemiological analysis (2014–2024)

Environmental Challenges
Background: Firearm violence and climate change represent intersecting public health crises in the United States. While temporal associations between temperature and violence have been established, critical gaps remain in understanding the spatial ...
Margaret M. Sugg, Quinn Keefer, Sophia C Ryan, Michael R. Desjardins, Jennifer D. Runkle   +4 more
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Association of prior criminal charges and convictions with subsequent violent and firearm-related crime: a retrospective cohort study

Injury Epidemiology
Background Interpersonal violence is a pressing public health problem in the United States. Those who interact with the criminal legal system are likely to experience multiple intersecting risks that increase the probability of subsequent violence ...
Julia P. Schleimer, Rachel Ross, Ali Rowhani-Rahbar   +2 more
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Gang membership, firearm victimization, and mental health in a national sample of U.S. adults

Injury Epidemiology
Background Firearm violence in the United States is highly concentrated within specific demographic, economic, geographic, and social population groups.
James A. Densley, David C. Pyrooz, Jillian K. Peterson   +2 more
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Firearm injury hospitalizations and handgun purchaser licensing laws: longitudinal evaluation of state-level purchaser licensure requirements on firearm violence, 2000–2016

Injury Epidemiology
Background Handgun purchaser licensing (HPL) laws mandate individuals to obtain a license from law enforcement before buying a firearm. Research indicates these laws effectively reduce various forms of fatal firearm violence, including homicides ...
Mitchell L. Doucette, Nicholas S. Meyerson, Cassandra K. Crifasi, Elizabeth Wagner, Daniel W. Webster   +4 more
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Medical student advocacy and action: a student-led initiative to prevent firearm violence

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Firearm violence continues to substantially increase, yet medical education is largely devoid of firearm injury prevention efforts. We evaluated reactions to Gun Violence Prevention Week (GVPW) sessions to initiate a longitudinal curriculum.
Rachel H. Safeek, Karen Udoh, Suzanne McGee, Charles Kodner, Monica Ann Shaw, Susan Sawning   +5 more
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