TY - JOUR
T1 - Unintentional gun injuries, firearm design, and prevention
T2 - What we know, what we need to know, and what can be done
AU - Frattaroli, Shannon
AU - Webster, Daniel W.
AU - Teret, Stephen P.
N1 - Funding Information:
This article was supported by a grant from the Joyce Foundation of Chicago, Illinois.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - The public health community has long recognized unintentional gun injuries as a public health issue. In 1998 in the United States, 866 people died from unintentional gunshot wounds, resulting in a crude death rate of 0.32 per 100,000. Unintentional gun deaths have been declining since at least 1920, yet the reasons for this downward trend are not understood. Possible explanations, such as changes in gun ownership and demography, changes in access to guns among population subgroups, safety practices, and artifactual influences are discussed. Intervention strategies for reducing the risk of unintentional gun injury are also discussed.
AB - The public health community has long recognized unintentional gun injuries as a public health issue. In 1998 in the United States, 866 people died from unintentional gunshot wounds, resulting in a crude death rate of 0.32 per 100,000. Unintentional gun deaths have been declining since at least 1920, yet the reasons for this downward trend are not understood. Possible explanations, such as changes in gun ownership and demography, changes in access to guns among population subgroups, safety practices, and artifactual influences are discussed. Intervention strategies for reducing the risk of unintentional gun injury are also discussed.
KW - Firearm design
KW - Unintentional gun injury
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U2 - 10.1093/jurban/79.1.49
DO - 10.1093/jurban/79.1.49
M3 - Article
C2 - 11937615
AN - SCOPUS:0036250492
VL - 79
SP - 49
EP - 59
JO - Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine
JF - Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine
SN - 1099-3460
IS - 1
ER -