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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"firearm violence"”.
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Fostering Voice, Inviting Dialogic Transformation: Exploring Emergent Communication Practices in Community Collaboration Efforts
… entrenched polarization around problems such as firearm violence often hinders the potential for new meaning and understanding to emerge through dialogue. This study explores how the communicative processes within community collaboration efforts around firearm violence work to foster voice, and …
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An Urban Bioethics Survey of the Physician/Gun Violence Intersection
Data consistently shows that firearm violence affects minority populations disproportionately. In the 1970s, firearm injury related death was the 13th leading cause of death in America. The problem has only worsened, costing the US economy almost $230 million a year and is now the second-leading …
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Emergency Nurses' Knowledge, Attitudes and Preventive Practices Regarding Firearms and Firearm Injury Prevention for Children
… were 134 deaths attributed to unintentional firearm injuries of children under 19 year and 3,019 nonfatal injuries (CDC, 2011). Nurses are expected to identify potential dangers in the community and protect those at risk. It was found that there is limited research on the effectiveness of …
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Retrospective review of gunshot injuries at Salt River mortuary, Cape Town, Western Cape
The use of firearms to inflict fatal trauma is a social, economic, and public health concern globally. In South Africa, firearm-related injuries (FRIs) have become the leading cause of unnatural death. Despite this, few studies have investigated the demographic, geographic and temporal distribution …
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Spatial Distributions of Domestic and Non-Domestic Violence by Firearm Involvement
… whether the spatial distribution of serious violence is influenced by whether the incident was domestic or not, firearm-involved or not, and any combination of these characteristics, to determine if disaggregation of the data into subgroups may aid in policy development. Data on murder, …
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A Tale of Two States: Texas v. California Firearm Mortality, Legislation, and Policies to Reduce Firearm-Related Violence in the United States
Ninety Americans die every day due to gun violence. This violence is a public health burden resulting in thousands of injuries and deaths every year. The age-adjusted firearm mortality rate per 100,000 from 2000-2015 ranges from 10.14-11.01 and is trending up. States address gun violence …