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Hear from experts working to reduce firearm injury
The Stock and Flow of U.S. Firearms: Results from the 2015 National Firearms Survey
Using the first nationally representative survey of firearm ownership and use in more than a decade, this article aimed to better characterize private ownership and use of firearms in the United States, including the exchange of firearms amongst people.
The Epidemiology of Firearm Violence in the Twenty-first Century United States
This review summarizes several epidemiological factors contributing to firearm violence in the United States.
The Committee on Trauma (COT): Firearm Injury Prevention
Resources and recommendations to addressing firearm injury prevention by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS COT) leadership and the Injury Prevention Committee.
WEAVE
WEAVE is the primary provider of crisis intervention services for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in Sacramento County.
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.
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.
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.
The Epidemiology of Case Fatality Rates for Suicide in the Northeast
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.
Veterans and Suicide: A Reexamination of the National Death Index-linked National Health Interview Survey
Results of this paper reveal that suicide risk among male veterans is modestly increased, though not significantly, compared to the male nonveterans.
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Homicides of Adult Women and the Role of Intimate Partner Violence – United States, 2003-2014
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.
Silencing the Science on Gun Research
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.
Trends and Burden of Firearm-related Hospitalizations in the United States Across 2001- 2011
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.