+ 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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+ CDC's National Violent Death Reporting System: background and methodology
- Author:
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Paulozzi LJ / Mercy J / Frazier L / Annest JL
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- Injury Prevention
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Homicide, Public Health, Suicide, Surveillance/Data Collection, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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NVDRS, report, violent death
The authors describe the goals and methods of a new surveillance called the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Its objective is the collection...
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+ Reliability of a Short Gun Questionnaire
- Author:
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Zun, Leslie S. / Downey, La Vonne
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Southern Medical Journal
- Topics:
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Age Group, Gun Carrying, Medical, Ownership, Public Health, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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Youth, convenience sample, gun accessibility, gun questionnaire
The authors developed and tested a seven-question gun questionnaire asking about gun accessibility, ownership and usage from a much longer gun survey and compared the reliability of the two versions to...
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+ Children, Youth, and Gun Violence: Analysis and Recommendations
- Author:
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Reich, Kathleen / Culross, Patti L. / Behrman, Richard E.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- The Future of Children
- Topics:
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Age Group, Legislation and Policy, Public Health, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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Firearms, Safety, Weapons, community-based law enforcement, gun violence
The authors summarize the effects of gun violence perpetration by and victimization of young people in terms of physical, economic and psychological burden and due to homicides, suicides, and unintentional...
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+ The case for enhanced data collection of gun type
- Author:
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Richmond TS / Branas CC / Cheney RA / Schwab CW
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- J Trauma
- Topics:
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Criminology, Homicide, Local, Public Health, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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Firearms, Injury, handguns, wound
The authors examined the association between the type of gun used in crimes and injury occurrence. Using data on gun fatalities over a 5-year period in three communities from medical examiner reports,...
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+ Firearm use in intimate partner violence - A brief overview
- Author:
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Sorenson, S. B.
- Date:
- 2006
- Publication:
- Evaluation Review
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Domestic Violence, Homicide, Legislation and Policy, Public Health, Surveillance/Data Collection, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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Intimate Partner Violence, PREVENTION, Violence, Weapon use
The author provided a synopsis of the characteristics and patterns of weapon use in intimate partner violence in order to help readers better understand the nature of the problem, obtain knowledge that...
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+ Epidemiology of homicide-suicide events: Oklahoma, 1994-2001
- Author:
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Comstock, R. D. / Mallonee, S. / Kruger, E. / Rayno, K. / Vance, A. / Jordan, F.
- Date:
- 2005
- Publication:
- Am J Forensic Med Pathol
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Homicide, Public Health, State, Suicide, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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Adolescent, Adult, Homicide/ statistics & numerical data, Oklahoma/epidemiology, Suicide/ statistics & numerical data
All of the records from 1994 through 2001 from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Oklahoma were reviewed, and 73 homicide-suicide events resulting in 73 suicides and 89 homicides were identified...
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+ Violent death in American schools in the 21st century: reflections following the 2006 Amish School shootings
- Author:
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Logue JN
- Date:
- 2008
- Publication:
- J Sch Health
- Topics:
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Homicide, Public Health, Students, Surveillance/Data Collection, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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Adolescent, Homicide statistics & numerical data, Risk Factors, Schools, Violence
The author provides commentary reviewing recent data on school-associated violent deaths and action steps for healthcare professionals. Strategies to prevent these deaths should focus on three common...
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+ Trauma center-community partnerships to address firearm injury: it can be done
- Author:
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Richmond TS / Branas CC / Schwab CW
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- LDI Issue Brief
- Topics:
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Homicide, Legislation and Policy, Public Health, Suicide, Surveillance/Data Collection, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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data, partnership, pilot, surveillance
The authors describe the ten-year progress of a program developed by the Firearm and Injury Center at Penn for the use of trauma centers to lead community partnerships to prevent firearm injury, using...
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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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+ Injury surveillance
- Author:
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Horan, J. M. / Mallonee, S.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Epidemiologic Reviews
- Topics:
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Public Health, Surveillance/Data Collection, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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information technology, injury surveillance
The authors describe current injury surveillance data sources and systems in the United States and review their use for surveillance of major categories of injury. They present several new developments...
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