+ Firearm Availability and Suicide, Homicide, and Unintentional Firearm Deaths among Women
- Author:
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Miller, M. / Azrael, D.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- Journal of Urban Health-Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Gun Carrying, Homicide, Suicide
- Keywords:
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Accidents, Cross-Sectional Studies, Firearms, Suicide, UNITED States
The authors used pooled cross-sectional time series data from the National Center for Health Statistics and General Social Survey for the period 1988-1997 to examine whether measures of firearm availability...
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+ Drugs and Firearm Deaths in New York City
- Author:
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Galea, S. / Ahern, J. / Tardiff, K. / Leon, A. C. / Vlahov, D.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- Journal of Urban Health-Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine
- Topics:
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Ethnicity, Local, Medical
- Keywords:
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Drug Use, Firearms, New York City, medical examiner
The authors used Medical Examiner records data from New York City to examine the role of drugs in the incidence of firearm deaths from 1990 to 1998. From toxicology reports, they found that half of all...
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