Background Studies carried in Mozambique show that injuries are one of the 10 top leading causes of death in the country.Objectives Provide baseline profile of injury mortality caused by guns.Methods This is a cross-sectional study of all non-natural deaths recorded from 2000 to 2009 at The Fo...
At the same time, the incidence of deaths caused by firearms is higher, the CDC said. The CDC said firearms and motor vehicles are among the leading non medical causes of Americans’ deaths each year.Guns and cars kill more people than do falls, and considerably more than alcohol abuse doe...
However,“There is no proper training of those who are using handguns.”He said gun owners must learn the importance of safe storage that keeps away from children. 1. This piece of news is mainly about ___. A.what people demanded in reducing deaths caused by guns B.the ...
By Jane Timm, Jane C. Timm Police deaths caused by firearms spiked in 2014, according to a report released Tuesday. Of the 126 police officers killed in the line of duty this year, guns were used in 50 of those incidents, a 56% spike from 2013 when 32 officers were killed with guns...
Rates of deaths caused by injuries overall have also risen, with firearms being the leading cause of those injuries in many states, report a team led byEugenio Weigend Vargas. He's a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan's Institute for Firearm Injury Preve...
Methods Data on intentional (suicide and homicide) deaths caused by firearms were obtained from the National Injury Surveillance Unit, sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) mortality data collection 1979-2013, coded by International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, and Interna...
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter HealthDay WEDNESDAY, Sept. 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Widespread and easy access to guns is the reason behind the shockingly high rate of firearm deaths in the United States, and not any rise in mental health problem...
Batman refused to use lethal force isn't entirely clear. Batman used to cause some gnarly deaths in his earliest comic book appearances, and despite sticking close to Batman's famous no-kill rule, live-action DC movies have featured a disproportionate amount of deaths directly caused by Batman...
The data in this interactive graphic comes primarily from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Multiple Cause of Death database, which is derived from death certificates from all 50 states and the District of Columbia and is widely considere
Killings of civilians by police officers have become a matter of intense public concern in the United States. High-profile deaths, especially those of black citizens, have caused outrage and sparked the Black Lives Matter movement with calls for dramatic changes in how police agencies operate. Howe...