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Hear from experts working to reduce firearm injury

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WEAVE

WEAVE is the primary provider of crisis intervention services for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in Sacramento County.

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The HAVI

The Health Alliance for Violence Intervention (HAVI) is an organization that fosters hospital and community collaborations to advance equitable, trauma-informed care and violence intervention and prevention programs.

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Project Childsafe Resource Library

Project ChildSafe is a program that promotes safety education with many resources and distribution of firearm safety kits across the US.

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Is Your Safety On?

A call to parents to lock up guns in an effort to prevent teen suicide by Boncom and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Division of Utah Department of Human Services.

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The Epidemiology of Case Fatality Rates for Suicide in the Northeast

Miller, M., Azrael, D., & Hemenway, D.
Annals of Emergency Medicine., 2004.

In examining the method-specific case fatality rate of suicides in seven northeastern states, researchers found that while firearms counted for a small portion of attempted suicides, they accounted for the majority of fatalities.

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Veterans and Suicide: A Reexamination of the National Death Index-linked National Health Interview Survey

Miller, M., Barber, C., Young, M., et al.
American Journal of Public Health , 2012

Results of this paper reveal that suicide risk among male veterans is modestly increased, though not significantly, compared to the male nonveterans.

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Racial and Ethnic Differences in Homicides of Adult Women and the Role of Intimate Partner Violence – United States, 2003-2014

Petrosky, E., Blair, J.M., & Betz, C.J.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2017

This morbidity and mortality report by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention finds that young, racial/ethnic minority women are disproportionately affected by homicide and that many of these cases were the result of intimate partner violence.

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Silencing the Science on Gun Research

Kellermann, A.L., Rivara, F.P.
Journal of the American Medical Association, 2013

Despite the increasing burden of firearm violence in the United States, there have been ongoing efforts to suppress funding for research on firearm violence and prevention.

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Trends and Burden of Firearm-related Hospitalizations in the United States Across 2001- 2011

Agarwal, S.
American Journal of Medicine, 2015

Using the 2001-2011 Nationwide Inpatient Sample database, researchers in this paper found that despite a steady case-fatality rate for firearm-related injuries in the 2000s, the lengths of stay and hospitalization costs have increased.

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The True Cost of Gun Violence in America

Follman. M., Lurie. J., & Lee. J.
Mother Jones, 2015

This journalistic piece found that the annual total cost of firearm-related death and injury in the United States was estimated at $229 billion for 2012 and that some costs, such as the mental health toll of trauma, remain difficult to quantify accurately.

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Violent Death Rates: The US Compared with other High-income OECD Countries

Grinshteyn, E., Hemenway, D.
American Journal of Medicine, 2016

Compared to other high-income countries, this study found that the rate of firearm-related death was significantly higher and has also increased between 2003 and 2010.

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Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control has created an interactive, online database, WISQARS, to compile data about fatal and nonfatal injury, violent death, and cost of injury. This database is accessible to the public.

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