Sentinel Events Preceding Youth Firearm Violence
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Prevent youth assault by assaulting firearm violence.
For decades, firearm injuries have been a leading cause of death, acquired disability, emotional anguish, and fear for our children and their families. Counting is easy: .32 000 deaths and 84 000 nonfatal shootings occurred in the United States in 2013. Among the average of 320 shootings per day were 48 children aged ,19 years or 130 youth aged ,25 years. What is harder to enumerate is the impa...
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BACKGROUND The risk for firearm violence among high-risk youth after treatment for an assault is unknown. METHODS In this 2-year prospective cohort study, data were analyzed from a consecutive sample of 14- to 24-year-olds with drug use in the past 6 months seeking assault-injury care (AIG) at an urban level 1 emergency department (ED) compared with a proportionally sampled comparison group (...
متن کاملAssociation between youth-focused firearm laws and youth suicides.
CONTEXT Firearms are used in approximately half of all youth suicides. Many state and federal laws include age-specific restrictions on the purchase, possession, or storage of firearms; however, the association between these laws and suicides among youth has not been carefully examined. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the association between youth-focused firearm laws and suicides among youth. DESIGN...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Preventive Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0749-3797
DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2016.08.002