The journals of the JAMA Network are dedicated to improving the health of people across the globe. We do so by addressing the most important public health problems harming people and publishing the best science that can be done. The journals have published important work on gun violence; in th...
PUBLIC healthSHOOTINGS (Crime)BACKGROUND checksGUN lawsGUN controlVIOLENCE against womenFollowing a recent push to reframe gun violence as a public health issue, an online survey (N = 510) helped explore frame salience and frame adoption through the lens of media advocacy. Findi...
CHICAGO (CBS)-- TheU.S. surgeon generalon Tuesdaydeclaredgun violencea public health crisisTuesday, and survivors in Chicago wonder what took so long. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called gun violence a public health crisis because more than 48,000 died from guns in 2022. The survivors said ...
TheU.S. surgeon generalon Tuesday declaredgun violence a public health crisis, driven by the fast-growing number of injuries and deaths involving firearms in the country.The advisory issued by Dr. Vivek Murthy, the nation's top doctor, came as the U.S. grappled with another summer weekend ...
WASHINGTON —TheU.S. surgeon generalon Tuesday declared gun violence a public health crisis, driven by the fast-growing number of injuries and deaths involving firearms in the country. The advisory issued by Dr. Vivek Murthy, the nation’s top doctor, came as the U.S. grapp...
issues as well as the overwhelming burden in children, and we should rally around that. You mentioned, JAMA has published quite a bit on this because the numbers are so stark. What does it mean to take a public health approach to this, to reframe gun violence as a public health issue?
The American College of Physicians said gun violence is a public health epidemic. But there is a lack of gun violence studies. Funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study gun violence was drained in 1996 by what is known as the Dickey Amendment. And the National Insti...
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has declared gun violence a public health crisis, issuing an advisory outlining several steps for Congress and local communities to take. "When gun violence is the leading cause of death among kids and teens, that should alarm all of us," said Murthy...
health promotion is part of a coalition of public health researchers across the country that is trying to reframe discourse around gun violence as a public health issue. The group, led by Boston University epidemiologist Sandro Galea, published an editorial in the March issue of theAmerican ...
Gun violence in the United States has become a national public health crisis, the U.S. Surgeon General declared Tuesday.