Background Mortality from firearms among US schoolchildren is an increasingly major clinical and public health crisis. We explored temporal trends in mortality from firearms among US schoolchildren from 1999 to 2017 by age and race. Methods We used the Multiple Cause...
It is interesting to compare and contrast the findings from New York City and Baltimore City on homicide rates in the context of Dickens’ opening paragraph for the Tale of Two Cities. He said: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age...
Background Violent death is a serious problem in the United States. Previous research showing US rates of violent death compared with other high-income countries used data that are more than a decade old. Methods We examined 2010 mortality data obtained from the World...
Background A variety of claims about possible associations between gun ownership rates, mental illness burden, and the risk of firearm-related deaths have been put forward. However, systematic data on this issue among various countries remain scant. Our objective was...
