Children and unintentional firearm death
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Children and unintentional firearm death
BACKGROUND Children in the United States are at far greater risk of unintentional gun death than children in other developed countries. The relative figures may even be worse since the estimates for US child unintentional gun deaths are derived from the Vital Statistics which have been shown to be underestimates. No study has used a national data system to investigate the circumstances of fatal...
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عنوان ژورنال: Injury Epidemiology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2197-1714
DOI: 10.1186/s40621-015-0057-0