Overall rates of firearm injuries were 4.1 per 100000 males and 0.3 per 100000 females; the overall rate was higher in outer regional/rural/remote areas (3.8 per 100000) than in major cities (1.6 per 100000) or inner regional areas (1.8 per 100000). During 2002-2016, the overall firearm-...
1 Because many incidents of youth violence result from impulsive responses to volatile situations, the presence of firearms can increase the lethality of such altercations.3,4 In fact, the accessibility of guns is believed to be a contributing factor to the high rates of youth gun violence in ...
“Firearm violence is a worsening problem in the United States,” and will require a range of efforts to control, they wrote. ___ The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. The AP is solely...
Sydney, Australia: Sydney University Press; 2013:117-152. http://bit.ly/1WydC4M. Accessed June 17, 2016. 2. Peters R. Rational firearm regulation: evidence-based gun laws in Australia. In: Webster DW, Vernick JS, eds. Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy With Evidence ...
The results then clearly depend on the assumptions underlying the model, and this is very important to keep in mind when reading this paper, or any paper that deals with mathematical models in biological and behavioral sciences. In the field of gun violence, it is especially important to be ...
Is gun violence a public health issue? The researchers also point out that numerous studies suggest that reduced access to guns would lower the suicide rate in the United States. "Differences in overall suicide rates across cities, states and regions in the United States are best explained not ...
Addressing gun violence is essential in the U.S. because mass shootings are happening far too often. The idea of ‘peace, order, and good government’ in Canada is significant and provides evidence that support claims made about Canada being a peaceful and organized nation. The States should ...
ranks 32nd in deaths from gun violence worldwide, with 3.96 killings per 100,000 people [source: Aizenman]. But many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean had vastly higher rates. El Salvador's gun homicide rate was 36.78 per 100,000 — more than nine times the U.S. rate. ...
That last number included those who used a gun in a suicide. People of color are disproportionately impacted by gun violence, the surgeon general’s advisory says. In 2022, Black people saw the highest rates of firearm-related homicides across all ages. That same year, B...
Exposure to neighborhood gun violence is associated with increased odds of mental health-related pediatric Emergency Department (ED) visits among children living within four to five blocks of a shooting, according to research by the Perelman School of Me