+ Self-inflicted accidental gunshot wounds
- Author:
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Chung, Yung A.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Legal Medicine
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Education/Counseling, Local, Prevention, Public Health
- Keywords:
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medical examiner, self-inflicted gun death, toy gun, unintentional gunshot wound
The author examines toy gun designs that mirror current weapon designs, by reviewing all firearm deaths a Michigan county using medical examiner’s records from 1990 to 2000. He found an average of 500...
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+ Guidelines for adolescent preventive services - The GAPS in practice
- Author:
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Gadomski, A. / Bennett, S. / Young, M. / Wissow, L. S.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
- Topics:
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Age Group, Medical, Prevention, Public Health
- Keywords:
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Adolescent, gun, risk behavior, risk factor
The authors examined the effect of Guidelines for Adolescent Preventive Services (GAPS) in the detection of, discussion of, and referrals for GAPS-related risk behavior, using data from adolescents that...
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+ Concealed Weapons and Children's Hospitals: A New Look at Safety in Our Changing World
- Author:
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Simon, H. K. / Khan, N. S. / Delgado, C. A.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Age Group, Medical, Prevention, Public Health
- Keywords:
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Firearms, Risk Management, Safety, UNITED States, Violence
The author reports on the data from a children’s hospital emergency department from January 2000 to August 2000 after it implemented entry-site metal detectors. More than 260 potential metallic weapons...
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+ A Public Health Approach to Regulating Firearms as Consumer Products
- Author:
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Vernick, J.S. / Teret, S.P. / Hall, A.
- Date:
- 2000
- Publication:
- University of Pennsylvania Law Review
- Topics:
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Crime, Homicide, Legislation and Policy, Prevention, Public Health, Suicide
- Keywords:
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Consumer-product regulation, Firearms, public health approach
The authors highlight the similarities and differences between firearms and other consumer products, noting that firearms are specifically designed to injure or kill. The authors point out that while...
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+ Review of evaluations of educational approaches to promote safe storage of firearms
- Author:
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McGee, K. S. / Coyne-Beasley, T. / Johnson, R. M.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Injury Prevention
- Topics:
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Education/Counseling, Prevention, Public Health, Storage
- Keywords:
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database review, intervention, safe storage
The authors reviewed evaluation studies of educational interventions promoting safe firearm storage, following a search of various major databases (Medline, ERIC, PsycINFO, Criminal Justice Periodicals...
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+ Gun Injuries: Are We Doing Enough?
- Author:
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Wright, Paige L.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Pediatric Neurosurgery
- Topics:
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Education/Counseling, Medical, Prevention, Public Health
- Keywords:
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Adolescent, Physician, gunshot injury
This long letter-to-the-editor summarizes the problem of gunshot injuries, and argues for an increased physician’s role in prevention. Gunshot wounds are responsible for 17% of nonfatal spinal cord injuries,...
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+ Physician Firearm Ownership as a Predictor of Firearm Injury Prevention Practice
- Author:
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Becher, E.C. / Cassel, C.K. / Nelson, E.A. / Azrael, D.
- Date:
- 2000
- Publication:
- Injury Prevention
- Topics:
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Education/Counseling, Ownership, Prevention, Public Health
- Keywords:
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PHYSICIANS, PREVENTION, Patient counseling, firearm injuries, firearm ownership
To explore the relationship between physicians’ gun ownership and their attitudes and practices regarding firearm injury prevention, a total of 915 doctors were interviewed. The results show that physician...
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+ Armed violence: a health problem, a public health approach
- Author:
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Valenti, M. / Ormhaug, C. M. / Mtonga, R. E. / Loretz, J.
- Date:
- 2007
- Publication:
- J Public Health Policy
- Topics:
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International, Prevention, Public Health
- Keywords:
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Community, Violence, Zambia
Violent death by small arms and light weapons is an international problem of significant dimensions, with, according to the authors of this study, an estimated death toll of hundreds of thousands of people...
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+ Taming the tools of violence
- Author:
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Marsh, N.
- Date:
- 2007
- Publication:
- J Public Health Policy
- Topics:
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International, Legislation and Policy, Prevention, Public Health, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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Africa, Public Health Strategy, Violence
Governments tend to be reactive rather than proactive in working to reduce armed violence. Understanding that firearms may not cause violence but clearly increase its severity and lethality is important...
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+ Firearms, violence, and the potential impact of firearms control
- Author:
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Zimring FE
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- J Law Med Ethics
- Topics:
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Legislation and Policy, Prevention, Public Health, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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Control, Ownership, gun, gun use, user
The author argues that gun control has the potential to save American lives by reducing the use of loaded guns in crimes. He reports that guns account for twice as many homicides as all other means of...
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+ Lethal Violence in the Schools
- Author:
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Hemenway, D.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- J Health Polit Policy Law
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Legislation and Policy, Prevention, Public Health, Students
- Keywords:
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Adolescent, Firearms, Security Measures, UNITED States, Violence
The author reviewed the incidence of lethal gun violence in schools and some of the different responses that have been suggested (e.g. arming school teachers and teaching them self-defense, screening...
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