Background Homicide is one of the 5 leading causes of death in the United States for persons aged 1 to 44 years. In 2019, 75% of US homicides were by gun. Chicago has a gun-homicide rate 4 times the national average, and 90% of all homicides are by gun. The public...
Pediatric clinics are uniquely positioned to assess and advocate for the health and safety of Chicago’s children in relation to accidental firearm-related injury and death. The best means of counseling families should be tailored to the individual community and...
Importance Firearms caused more than 500 pediatric fatalities in 2017-a 50% increase from 2009. Laws regulating firearms are one approach to reducing pediatric firearm fatalities. Objective To evaluate the association between state child access prevention (CAP)...
Background This study evaluated trends and risk factors over time for self-reported gun carrying among freshman and sophomore public school students in Chicago, New York City and Los Angeles, chosen as high profile cities with different levels of firearm violence....
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...
