How are gun violence and mental health problems connected (or not connected)? How effective are current laws designed to prevent firearm-related violence and suicide in the United States? What other feasible measures could be taken to meaningfully reduce the number of firearm injuries and deaths, ...
NEW YORK, July 5 (Xinhua) -- Whenever there is a call to do something about gun violence, many point to mental health as the problem, but the truth remains far more complicated, reported Psychology Today on Friday. There are two questions, really. First, are people with mental illnesses ...
The study revealed a significant increase in pediatric mental-health related ED visits following incidents of neighborhood gun violence, most pronounced in the two weeks after the shooting, among children residing closest to where the violence occurred, and among children exposed to multiple shootings. ...
health that reverberate through whole communities., director of interpersonal violence research at Rutgers University said, “The findings demonstrate that gun violence has wide-reaching health implications not only for individuals, but entire neighborhoods. Gun violence is not only a public health crisis...
healthof victim's families and loved ones. But it can also have a negative impact on the mental health of those who are not directly affected by it. With the plague of gun violence that has covered Philadelphia recently, it is important to understand the effects in can have all its ...
"Even if you were to do everything possible to eliminate mental illness, you'd really only be addressing around 3% of the violence in this country," said Dr. Reena Kapoor, professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. What drives mass casualty shootings and gun death, said Swanso...
Using Abbott’s framing, the mere suggestion of mental illness becomes the deciding risk factor for firearm violence instead of what it really is: a medical condition just like heart disease, cancer or diabetes. Furthermore, the suggestive psychiatric diagnoses floated by the media, laypeople ...
In addition to the physical and mental health consequences of gun violence, the injury also caused survivors an increase in financial burdens. Medical expenses rose by an average of 2,495 U.S. dollars per person per month after the injury, marking a more than 400 percent increase compared wit...
There’s a surprisingly strong link between mental health and gun violence, but it probably isn’t what you thinkHilary Brueck
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