- Australia's 1996 gun law reforms: faster falls in firearm deaths, firearm suicides, and a decade without mass shootings
- Author:
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Chapman, S. / Alpers, P. / Agho, K. / Jones, M.
- Date:
- 2006
- Publication:
- Injury Prevention
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Homicide, Legislation and Policy, Suicide
- Keywords:
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ACCIDENTS -- Prevention, MORTALITY -- Statistics, MULTIVARIATE analysis, OUTCOME assessment (Medical care), SAFETY education
Data from the Australian National Injury Surveillance Unit on unintentional and intentional death caused by firearms for the years 1979-2003 was analyzed in an investigation of the impact of 1996 gun...
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- Advocacy in public health: roles and challenges
- Author:
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Chapman, S.
- Date:
- 2001
- Publication:
- Int J Epidemiol
- Topics:
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Public Health
- Keywords:
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International, Laws, PUBLIC health, advocacy
One case study in this discussion of the role of public health advocacy was the Australian policy response to the Port Arthur gun massacre. “The preventive theme of ‘not going down the American road’...
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