Objective To describe rates and trends in the incidence of non-fatal and fatal firearm assault among children (16 years old or younger) over an 11 year period in Chicago, Illinois and to identify the socioeconomic characteristics of community areas where assaults are...
Objective To describe the incidence and circumstances of nonfatal firearm-related injuries among children and adolescents treated in US emergency departments. Design Data were obtained from the Firearm Injury Surveillance Study, 1993-1997; data were collected through...
Firearm violence is a serious threat to the health of our children: an American child dies of gunshot wounds every 1 1/2 hours, and every 2 days 30 children–the equivalent of a school classroom–lose their lives to guns. Injured children and adolescents are...
