+ Underestimates of unintentional firearm fatalities: comparing Supplementary Homicide Report data with the National Vital Statistics System
- Author:
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Barber, C. / Hemenway, D. / Hochstadt, J. / Azrael, D.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- Injury Prevention
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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Cause of Death, EPIDEMIOLOGY, Firearms, HOMICIDE, Wounds
The authors compared the way unintentional firearm injuries that were identified in police Supplementary Homicide Report (SHR) data from 1997 were coded in the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS)...
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+ Gun availability and use of guns for murder and suicide in Canada: A replication
- Author:
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Bridges, F. Stephen
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- Psychological Reports
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Age Group, Gender, Homicide
- Keywords:
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Gun availability, HOMICIDE, MURDER, Suicide, Weapons
The author replicated a 2001 study by Lester and examined the association between the rate of accidental death from firearms and the percentage of firearms used in suicides and on homicide victims. Using...
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+ The financial burden of injury-related hospitalizations to an Alaska Native health system
- Author:
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Chandler, B. A. / Berger, L. R.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- Alaska Med
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Ethnicity, Local, Medical, Suicide
- Keywords:
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Alaska, Firearms, Health Care Costs, Suicide, Violence
The authors evaluated how much the Tanana Chiefs Conference in Interior Alaska, a Native Alaskans’ health care system, paid for injury-related hospitalizations from 1994-1998. They identified 511 cases...
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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
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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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+ Unintentional Gun Injuries, Firearm Design, and Prevention: What We Know, What We Need to Know, and What Can Be Done
- Author:
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Frattaroli, S. / Webster, D. W. / Teret, S. P.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- J Urban Health
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Gun Carrying, Legislation and Policy, Ownership
- Keywords:
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Accident Prevention, Adolescent, Equipment Design, Safety, UNITED States
The authors reviewed historical trends and the current state of unintentional firearm injury and mortality. They described the demographics of gun ownership and the access to firearms by different groups...
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+ Firearm Availability and Unintentional Firearm Deaths, Suicide, and Homicide among 5-14 Year Olds
- Author:
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Miller, M. / Azrael, D. / Hemenway, D.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- J Trauma
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Homicide, Legislation and Policy, Ownership, State, Suicide
- Keywords:
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Adolescent, Cross-Sectional Studies, Firearms, Suicide, UNITED States
The authors examined pooled cross-sectional time-series data from 1988 to 1997 to assess the association between the rate of violent death among 5-14 year olds and four proxies of firearm availability...
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+ 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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+ Many young people have access to alcohol, guns
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- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly
- Topics:
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Age Group, Alcohol, Public Health
- Keywords:
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Alcohol, Children, Risk Factors, guns
This editorial refers to an article published in 2002 in Injury Prevention on risk factors of increased access to alcohol and guns. The study found that both alcohol and guns were most commonly accessible...
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+ Youth, Guns, and Violent Crime
- Author:
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Blumstein, Alfred
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- The Future of Children
- Topics:
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Age Group, Crime, Gun Carrying, Homicide, Law Enforcement, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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Firearms, Youth Violence, guns, juvenile delinquency, violent crime
The author examines the trends of homicide and robbery violence in the United States during the late 1980s and early 1990s. He notes that the increase in violence over that period was mostly because of...
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+ After the epidemic: Recent trends in youth violence in the United States
- Author:
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Cook, P. J. / Laub, J. H.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- Crime and Justice: a Review of Research
- Topics:
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Age Group, Ethnicity, Homicide, Public Health, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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Epidemic, UNITED States, Youth Violence, trend
The authors examined the epidemic of US youth violence that peaked in the mid-90s and then has consistently dropped. They assess the validity of two types of explanations for this reversal in trends,...
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