+ Guns in the home: risky business
- Author:
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Wiebe, D. J.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- LDI Issue Brief
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Gender, Homicide, Suicide
- Keywords:
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household firearm, risk factor, woman
This brief summarizes two of the author’s previously published case-control studies that combine data from the National Mortality Followback Survey and the National Health Interview Survey. Women with...
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+ Injury Mortality Among American Indian and Alaska Native Children and Youth--United States, 1989-1998
- Author:
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- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
- Topics:
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Age Group, Ethnicity, Homicide, Public Health, Suicide, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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Alaska, Mortality, Suicide, firearm
This CDC report presents a summary of analysis of injury mortality data by Indian Health Service (IHS) administrative area and by race/ ethnicity, using mortality data from CDC’s National Center for Health...
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+ Homicide-Suicides in Fiji: Offense Patterns, Situational Factors, and Sociocultural Contexts
- Author:
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Adinkrah, Mensah
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior
- Topics:
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Crime, Domestic Violence, Homicide, Suicide
- Keywords:
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Fiji, Homicide-Suicide, intimate relations
The author uses official homicide-suicide data from the Murder and Manslaughter Register of the Fiji Police Force along with information from Fiji-based daily newspapers to examine all homicide-suicides...
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+ Increased risk of intimate partner homicide among California women who purchase handguns
- Author:
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Wintemute, G. J. / Wright, M. A. / Drake, C. M.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Ann Emerg Med
- Topics:
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Crime, Criminology, Domestic Violence, Gender, Homicide, Suicide
- Keywords:
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Firearms, Handgun, intimate violence
In this letter to the editor, the authors expand on results from their previous research of mortality among handgun purchasers in California in 1991 that were followed-up through 1996. They used coroners’...
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+ Association between handgun purchase and mortality from firearm injury
- Author:
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Grassel, K. M. / Wintemute, G. J. / Wright, M. A. / Romero, M. P.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Injury Prevention
- Topics:
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Criminology, Homicide, Ownership, Public Health, Suicide
- Keywords:
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California, case-control, data, firearm death, firearm retailer
The authors examined the association between violent or firearm death and previous handgun purchase, in this case-control study of 213,466 Californians ages 21 and older who died in 1998, using data from...
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+ Homicide and suicide risks associated with firearms in the home: a national case-control study
- Author:
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Wiebe, D. J.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Ann Emerg Med
- Topics:
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Ethnicity, Gender, Homicide, Suicide, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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Method, case-control, gun, homicide at home, suicide at home
The author examined the effect of having a gun in the home on the likelihood for adults to be killed or to commit suicide, using data from the 1993 National Mortality Followback Survey and the 1994 National...
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+ Source of firearms used by students in school-associated violent deaths--United States, 1992-1999
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- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep
- Topics:
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Homicide, Students, Suicide
- Keywords:
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Household Gun, firearm, multiple-victim, perpetrator, school
This report describes the CDC’s evaluation of school-associated firearm violent deaths by students in elementary and secondary schools and its determination of the firearms used there, identifying cases...
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+ Taking aim at gun violence: tracing bullets and guns to sideline scofflaw dealers
- Author:
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Cole, T. B.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Jama
- Topics:
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Homicide, Law Enforcement, Suicide, Surveillance/Data Collection, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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gun trafficking, gun violence, unlicensed gun dealer, violent injury
The author discusses the use of the National Violent Injury Statistics System (NVISS), a surveillance system that monitors firearm homicide and suicide by linking records on violent injuries from medical...
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+ Are "accidental" gun deaths as rare as they seem? A comparison of medical examiner manner of death coding with an intent-based classification approach
- Author:
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Schaechter, J. / Duran, I. / De Marchena, J. / Lemard, G. / Villar, M. E.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Pediatrics
- Topics:
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Homicide, Local, Medical, Suicide, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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intent-based classification, medical examiner, pediatric firearm death, unintentional gun death
The authors compared the proportion of pediatric unintentional gun deaths in Miami-Dade County based on manner of death coding by a medical examiner (ME) and an intent-based classification (IBC) for all...
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