The study found that suicides accounted for most of the deaths by firearms -- and those deaths had been in increasing.这项研究发现，自杀占与枪支有关的死亡人数的大部分，而且这一数字一直在增加。The number of suicides by firearm rose from fewer than 19,000 in 2009 to over 24,000 in 2018. ...
To address domestic violence-related homicides among women, states might want to heed research showing that restrictingfirearmaccess among domestic violence offenders and people convicted of violent crime can reduce domestic violence homicide. To address suicides and unintentional deaths by firearms among yo...
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...
Injuries and deaths caused by firearms are a major health problem in the United States, where guns are the leading cause of death among people under 19. Past prevention efforts have been politicized at the expense of the public's health. This seems to be happening again. In 1996, the US ...
In 2018, of 39740 firearm deaths, 24432 were suicides (roughly half of all suicides) and 13958 were homicides, with Mississippi, Alabama, and Wyoming having the highest rates of all gun deaths (Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Hawaii had the lowest).1 As of 2015, US deaths from gun ...
Consider these grim statistics: there were more than 48 000 firearms-related deaths in the US in 2022, equating to 132 adults and children dying every day. And firearms are now the leading cause of death among US children and teens. What can public health leaders, medical professionals, ...
Most experts define mass shootings as involving the deaths of more than four people.About 99 percent of all shootings in the US involve fewer victims,according to statistics compiled by the federal government and academics.Beyond mass shootings,boys and young men account for half the US homicides ...
Majority of reported surgeons dying by suicide were middle-aged, Caucasian males. Majority of physicians were from North Carolina and 53.5% died by firearms. Orthopedic surgeons had the highest incidence of suicide among surgical fields (28.2%). Compared to the general population, surgeons were 6%...
In the United States,the most common method of suicideis with firearms, followed by suffocation and then poisoning. In 2022, there were around 27,032 suicide deaths from firearms in the United States, compared to 12,247 deaths from suffocation and 4,894 from drug poisoning. In 2021,firearms...
"Firearm deaths are a public health crisis in the U.S.," Bleyer said. "Mental health disorder prevalence does not explain the higherfirearmdeath rate. The difference is we have a way in this country of taking those mental health problems to the extreme by using firearms, which lead todeat...