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Peer-Reviewed Article

Prevalence of Household Firearms and Firearm Storage Practices in the 50 States and the District of Columbia: Findings from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

Okoro, C.A., Nelson, D.E., Mercy, J.A., et al.
Pediatrics, 2002

Using data from data from the 2002 cross-sectional Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey, this study aimed to find prevalence of household firearms and firearm-storage practices as well as the number of children exposed to unsafe storage practices.

Peer-Reviewed Article

The Stock and Flow of U.S. Firearms: Results from the 2015 National Firearms Survey

Azrael, D., Hepburn, L., Hemenway, D., et al.
The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences., 2017.

Using the first nationally representative survey of firearm ownership and use in more than a decade, this article aimed to better characterize private ownership and use of firearms in the United States, including the exchange of firearms amongst people.

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The Epidemiology of Firearm Violence in the Twenty-first Century United States

Wintemute, G.J.
Annual Review of Public Health, 2015

This review summarizes several epidemiological factors contributing to firearm violence in the United States.

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The Committee on Trauma (COT): Firearm Injury Prevention

Resources and recommendations to addressing firearm injury prevention by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS COT) leadership and the Injury Prevention Committee.

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WEAVE

WEAVE is the primary provider of crisis intervention services for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in Sacramento County.

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The HAVI

The Health Alliance for Violence Intervention (HAVI) is an organization that fosters hospital and community collaborations to advance equitable, trauma-informed care and violence intervention and prevention programs.

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Project Childsafe Resource Library

Project ChildSafe is a program that promotes safety education with many resources and distribution of firearm safety kits across the US.

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Is Your Safety On?

A call to parents to lock up guns in an effort to prevent teen suicide by Boncom and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Division of Utah Department of Human Services.

Peer-Reviewed Article

The Epidemiology of Case Fatality Rates for Suicide in the Northeast

Miller, M., Azrael, D., & Hemenway, D.
Annals of Emergency Medicine., 2004.

In examining the method-specific case fatality rate of suicides in seven northeastern states, researchers found that while firearms counted for a small portion of attempted suicides, they accounted for the majority of fatalities.

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Veterans and Suicide: A Reexamination of the National Death Index-linked National Health Interview Survey

Miller, M., Barber, C., Young, M., et al.
American Journal of Public Health , 2012

Results of this paper reveal that suicide risk among male veterans is modestly increased, though not significantly, compared to the male nonveterans.

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Racial and Ethnic Differences in Homicides of Adult Women and the Role of Intimate Partner Violence – United States, 2003-2014

Petrosky, E., Blair, J.M., & Betz, C.J.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2017

This morbidity and mortality report by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention finds that young, racial/ethnic minority women are disproportionately affected by homicide and that many of these cases were the result of intimate partner violence.

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Silencing the Science on Gun Research

Kellermann, A.L., Rivara, F.P.
Journal of the American Medical Association, 2013

Despite the increasing burden of firearm violence in the United States, there have been ongoing efforts to suppress funding for research on firearm violence and prevention.

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