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Commentary: Evidence to Guide Gun Violence Prevention in America [PDF]
, 2015 Gun violence is a major threat to the public's health and safety in the United States. The articles in this volume's symposium on gun violence reveal the scope of the problem and new trends in mortality rates from gunfire.
Daniel W. Webster
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PLoS ONE, 2021 Injuries and fatalities due to firearms are a major burden on public health in the US. The rise in gun violence in popular movies has been suggested as a potential cultural influence on this behavior.
Patrick E Jamieson, Daniel Romer
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BMJ, 2007 Protecting children and reducing social exclusion are the priorities The headlines about gun crime and violent crime in the United Kingdom are tragic and alarming—seven deaths of young people by October 2007 from gun crime and an apparent increase in violent crime generally.
Adshead, G, Fonagy, P, Sarkar, SP
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Gun Violence: A Biopsychosocial Disease
Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2018 Gun violence is a complex biopsychosocial disease and as such, requires a multidisciplinary approach to understanding and treatment. Framing gun violence as a disease places it firmly within medical and public health practice.
Stephen W. Hargarten +5 more
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Injury Epidemiology, 2021 Background Unstably housed women experience high levels of violence. While previous studies have investigated psychological, physical, and sexual violence, weapon and gun violence are rarely delineated.
Rose M. C. Kagawa, Elise D. Riley
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Effects of Policies Designed to Keep Firearms from High-Risk Individuals [PDF]
, 2015 This article summarizes and critiques available evidence from studies published between 1999 and August 2014 on the effects of policies designed to keep firearms from high-risk individuals in the United States. Some prohibitions for high-risk individuals
Am. for Gun Saf. Found +16 more
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Injury Epidemiology, 2020 Background Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) laws are a promising gun violence prevention strategy. ERPO laws allow specific categories of people (law enforcement in all states, family in most) to petition a court to request that an individual be ...
Shannon Frattaroli +6 more
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Changes in firearm intentions and behaviors after the 2024 United States presidential election
Injury EpidemiologyBackground Firearm purchasing patterns, intentions, and behaviors change over time in response to specific events. Additionally, the nature of these changes may be evolving over time or differ depending on the nature of the event in question.
Michael D. Anestis +4 more
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Voices, 2021 This community/art based participatory research project encompassed communal art making practices (art as therapy) to build community, heal and resist systemic oppression and community violence, as well as promote self-care, empowerment, and a sense of ...
Rochele Royster
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America Under Fire: An Analysis of Gun Violence in the United States and the Link to Weak Gun Laws [PDF]
, 2016 In 2013, the Center for American Progress conducted a study to assess the correlation between the relative strength or weakness of a state's gun laws, as measured by the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, and rates of gun violence in the state across 10
Chelsea Parsons, Eugenio Weigend
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