+ Firearm violence in America: A growing health problem
- Author:
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Baroni, S. / Richmond, T. S.
- Date:
- 2006
- Publication:
- Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Public Health, State, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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Community-Institutional Relations, Firearms, Health Promotion/organization & administration, Homicide/prevention & control/statistics & numerical data, Humans
According to the State Injury Profiles 2001 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, firearm injury is the second leading cause of injury death following only motor vehicle crashes. Firearm...
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+ Reductions In Firearm-Related Mortality And Hospitalizations In Brazil After Gun Control
- Author:
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de Souza, Maria de Fátima Marinho / Macinko, James / Alencar, Airlane Pereira / Malta, Deborah Carvalho / de Morais Neto, Otaliba Libânio
- Date:
- 2007
- Publication:
- Health Affairs
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Homicide, Law Enforcement, Legislation and Policy, Prevention, Suicide
- Keywords:
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Brazil, GUN control
In October 2003, Brazil passed laws making it illegal to own unregistered guns, to carry guns outside one’s home or business, to sell guns without a background check, and to buy a gun before the age of...
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+ Australian firearms legislation and unintentional firearm deaths: a theoretical explanation for the absence of decline following the 1996 gun laws
- Author:
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McPhedran S / Baker J
- Date:
- 2008
- Publication:
- Public Health
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Suicide, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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AUSTRALIA, Accidents, Prevention & Control, Safety, Wounds
The Australian Bureau of Statistics stated that in recent years there has been an increase in open coroner’s cases of potential suicides. Open cases are reported as accidental, ill-defined or unspecified,...
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+ Small Arms and Light Weapons: A Public Health Approach
- Author:
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Cukier, W.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- Brown Journal of World Affairs
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Gun Carrying, Homicide, International, Public Health, Suicide
- Keywords:
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Arms control, ILLEGAL arms transfers, International cooperation, PUBLIC health -- International cooperation
The author summarizes the global burden of firearms involved in murder, suicide and accidents, both in terms of human lives lost, as well as regarding economic, social and political conditions. The author...
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+ Risk Factors Associated with Non-Fatal Adolescent Firearm Injuries
- Author:
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Paris, C. A. / Edgerton, E. A. / Sifuentes, M. / Seidel, J. S. / Lewis, R. J. / Gausche, M.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- Injury Prevention
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Age Group, Ethnicity
- Keywords:
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Adolescent, Case-control study, Firearms, Risk Factors, Washington
In this case-control study, the authors compared 45 patients (aged 11-18 years) who visited a level I trauma center’s emergency department for treatment of non-fatal firearm injuries (cases) with 50 patients...
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+ Guns killing our children: a status report
- Author:
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Velsor-Fredrich, B.
- Date:
- 2001
- Publication:
- J Pediatr Nurs
- Topics:
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Adolescent, Prevention
- Keywords:
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Adolescents, GUN control, Health care providers, liscenses
This report provides a brief overview of teen gun deaths in the U.S. and legislation and programs aimed at reducing gun violence among teens. The author cites studies that attribute the rising rate of...
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+ Welcome to the world: findings from an emergency medical services pediatric injury prevention program
- Author:
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Hawkins, E. R. / Brice, J. H. / Overby, B. A.
- Date:
- 2007
- Publication:
- Pediatr Emerg Care
- Topics:
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Age Group, Ownership, Prevention, Storage, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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Accident, Control, Home, Home Safety Survey, PREVENTION
The authors report findings from a primary prevention program that trained paramedics to conduct home safety surveys, provide family safety education, and identify common pediatric injury risks in the...
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+ Gun-control legislation and the impact on suicide
- Author:
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Leenaars, A. A.
- Date:
- 2007
- Publication:
- Crisis-the Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention
- Topics:
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Age Group, Gender, International, Legislation and Policy, Prevention, Suicide
- Keywords:
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GUN control
The author examines the efficacy of gun control laws in reducing suicide via restricting access to lethal means in a suicidal individual’s environment. Controlling for various socioeconomic factors, gun...
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+ Risk factors for male and female suicide decedents ages 15-64 in the United States - Results from the 1993 National Mortality Followback Survey
- Author:
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Kung, H. C. / Pearson, J. L. / Liu, X. H.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
- Topics:
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Age Group, Gender, Suicide, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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case-control, depressive symptom, firearm, risk factor
The authors examined the associations of certain risk factors with suicide among males and females aged 15–64, and the variation in the associations by gender in this case-control study was constructed...
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+ The impact of gun control (Bill C-51) on suicide in Canada
- Author:
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Leenaars, A. A. / Moksony, F. / Lester, D. / Wenckstern, S.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Death Studies
- Topics:
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Age Group, Gender, International, Legislation and Policy, Suicide
- Keywords:
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Canada, GUN control, Review, Suicide
The authors reviewed previously published studies on the effect of Canada’s Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1977 (Bill C-51) on suicide rates by age and gender. They also present the findings of two new...
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+ The Million Mom March: engaging the public on gun policy
- Author:
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Wallack, L. / Winett, L. / Nettekoven, L.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- J Public Health Policy
- Topics:
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Age Group, Education/Counseling, Gender, Legislation and Policy, Public Opinion
- Keywords:
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Children, GUN control, advocacy, gun, woman
The authors read more than 200 news accounts and conducted over 40 interviews with key participants in the May 14 (Mother’s Day) 2000 Million Mom March, probably the most successful public advocacy event...
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