Firearm-related injuries pose a serious public health problem in the United States and are increasingly the focus of public health concern. Despite the magnitude of this problem, ongoing and systematic collection of data on firearm-related injuries to help guide...
Background Violence-related injuries, including suicide, adversely affect the health and welfare of all Americans through premature death, disability, medical costs, and lost productivity. Estimating the magnitude of the economic burden of violence is critical for...
Data from 26 industrialized countries are compared to understand the incidence of firearm-related and non-firearm-related homicide among children under 15 years of age. Comparisons were made between rates per 100,000 children for each country and for the United States...
Objectives To examine the prevalence of household firearms and firearm-storage practices in the 50 states and the District of Columbia and estimate the number of children exposed to unsafe storage practices. Methods We analyzed data from the 2002 cross-sectional...
Objective To provide national estimates of fatal and nonfatal firearm-related (FA) injuries among children ≤14 years old and to examine the circumstances under which these injuries occurred. Methods For nonfatal FA injuries among children, we analyzed data on...
