Firearms are the leading cause of death in children in the United States and are linked to over half of youth suicides. Secure storage of firearms (stored locked, unloaded, and separate from the ammunition) can significantly decrease the rates of child and adolescent firearm-related suicides. Acc...
And firearms are now the leading cause of death among US children and teens. What can public health leaders, medical professionals, and health systems do to mitigate gun violence and protect the health and safety of communities? They can do a lot, says the US Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy,...
The researchers found that firearms continued to be the leading cause of death in U.S. children in 2021. There was a 46.1 percent increase in the firearm death rate from 2018 to 2021. Among children who died by firearms in 2021, 84.8 percent were male, 49.9 percent were Black, 82.6 perc...
In the study, YPLL was calculated by the CDC standard of subtracting the age at death from the standard year of 80, and then summing the individual years of YPLL across each cause of death. Suicide is responsible for the most YPLL due to firearm deaths and continues to increase in the ...
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NEW YORK, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- Firearms have overtaken car crashes as the leading cause of traumatic deaths in the United States, U.S. media outlet NPR has reported, citing a new study. Firearm-related deaths are continuing to rise rapidly across the country, according to the study publish...
Abstract Importance Firearms are the leading cause of death for children in the US. It is therefore crucial to identify effective ways to reduce firearm injuries among children. Objective To test the effectiveness of a gun safety video vs a car safety video on decreasing unsafe behaviors around ...
Effect of a Ban on Carrying Firearms on Homicide Rates in 2 Colombian Cities Homicide is a leading cause of death in Colombia, with much of the fatal interpersonal violence concentrated in the country's largest cities. Firearms are ... Villaveces,Andrés - 《Jama the Journal of the American ...
For children aged between 1 and 9, unintentional injuries were the leading cause of firearm death. Boys had firearm death rates five times that of girls, and African-American young people had a firearm death rate nearly three times that of white children and teens. ...