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Association between neighborhood safety and overweight status among urban adolescentsDustin T Duncan
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
BMC Public Health 9:289. 2009....
Are household firearms stored safely? It depends on whom you askD Azrael
Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Pediatrics 106:E31. 2000..To determine gun storage practices in gun-owning households with children...
Greater than the sum of their parts: the benefits of Youth Violence Prevention CentersDeborah Azrael
Harvard School of Public Health, Health Policy and Management, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Community Psychol 48:21-30. 2011..Throughout, we describe the ways in which the existence of a center led, under the ACE format, to research, policy and practice opportunities that would not have existed in the absence of a center...- Youth suicide: insights from 5 years of Arizona Child Fatality Review Team dataDeborah Azrael
Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 34:36-43. 2004..2 level. Targeted suicide prevention activities should supplement interventions focused on restricting access to highly lethal means of suicide such as firearms... - Recent psychopathology, suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts in households with and without firearms: findings from the National Comorbidity Study ReplicationM Miller
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Inj Prev 15:183-7. 2009..To assess the relationship between firearm ownership and possible psychiatric confounders of the firearm-suicide relationship... - The effect of nondiscretionary concealed weapon carrying laws on homicideLisa Hepburn
Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Trauma 56:676-81. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: The current findings are consistent with those of other published studies indicating that nondiscretionary concealed weapon laws are not associated with significant increases or decreases in homicide... - Firearm availability and unintentional firearm deathsM Miller
Department of Health Policy and Management, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Accid Anal Prev 33:477-84. 2001..Between 1979 and 1997, almost 30,000 Americans died from unintentional firearm injuries, half of whom were under 25 years of age and 4,600 of whom were less than 15 years old... - The US gun stock: results from the 2004 national firearms surveyL Hepburn
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Inj Prev 13:15-9. 2007..To examine the size and composition of the privately held firearm stock in the US; and to describe demographic patterns of firearm ownership and motivations for ownership. Design,.. - The association between changes in household firearm ownership and rates of suicide in the United States, 1981-2002M Miller
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Inj Prev 12:178-82. 2006..To explore whether recent declines in household firearm prevalence in the United States were associated with changes in rates of suicide for men, women, and children... - National attitudes concerning gun carrying in the United StatesD Hemenway
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Inj Prev 7:282-5. 2001..To determine public attitudes in the United States concerning gun carrying... - Gun use in the United States: results from two national surveysD Hemenway
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Inj Prev 6:263-7. 2000..To determine the relative incidence of gun victimization versus self defense gun use by civilians in the United States, and the circumstances and probable legality of the self defense uses... - Cancer and the risk of suicide in older AmericansMatthew Miller
Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Kresge Bldg, Rm 305, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Clin Oncol 26:4720-4. 2008..To determine whether the risk of suicide is greater among patients with cancer than among patients with other medical illnesses... - Suicide among US veterans: A prospective study of 500,000 middle-aged and elderly menMatthew Miller
Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Heath, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Am J Epidemiol 170:494-500. 2009.... - Household firearm ownership and rates of suicide across the 50 United StatesMatthew Miller
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Trauma 62:1029-34; discussion 1034-5. 2007..We address these two criticisms by using recently available state-level survey-based estimates of household firearm ownership, serious mental illness, and alcohol/illicit substance use and dependence... - Emotional distress among LGBT youth: the influence of perceived discrimination based on sexual orientationJoanna Almeida
Northeastern University, School of Health Professions, Institute on Urban Health Research, Stearns Building, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Youth Adolesc 38:1001-14. 2009..Perceived discrimination is a likely contributor to emotional distress among LGBT youth... - State-level homicide victimization rates in the US in relation to survey measures of household firearm ownership, 2001-2003Matthew Miller
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Soc Sci Med 64:656-64. 2007..Although causal inference is not warranted on the basis of the present study alone, our findings suggest that the household may be an important source of firearms used to kill men, women and children in the United States... - The effect of child access prevention laws on unintentional child firearm fatalities, 1979-2000Lisa Hepburn
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 021115, USA
J Trauma 61:423-8. 2006..States that allowed felony prosecution of offenders experienced a greater effect of CAP laws than states that did not. CAP laws may have had some influence on the continued reduction in national death rates... - Firearm availability and unintentional firearm deaths, suicide, and homicide among 5-14 year oldsMathew Miller
Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Trauma 52:267-74; discussion 274-5. 2002..This national study attempts to determine whether firearm prevalence is related to rates of unintentional firearm deaths, suicides, and homicides among children... - Are household firearms stored less safely in homes with adolescents?: Analysis of a national random sample of parentsRenee M Johnson
Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 160:788-92. 2006..To examine whether firearms are more frequently stored loaded, unlocked, or both in households with adolescents only (aged 13-17 years) compared with households with younger children only (aged 0-12 years)... - Belief in the inevitability of suicide: results from a national surveyMatthew Miller
Harvard School of Public Health, Rm 305 Kresge Building, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 36:1-11. 2006..The strongest predictors of belief in complete substitution were firearm ownership and cigarette smoking. Belief in the inevitability of suicide may be a political impediment to adopting potentially effective suicide prevention efforts... - Firearm availability and suicide, homicide, and unintentional firearm deaths among womenMatthew Miller
Department of Health Policy and Management, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Urban Health 79:26-38. 2002..In the United States, more than 45,000 women died from gun violence over the last decade... - Household firearm ownership and suicide rates in the United StatesMatthew Miller
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Epidemiology 13:517-24. 2002..A central question regarding the relation between firearms and suicide is whether the ready availability of firearms increases the suicide rate, rather than merely increasing the proportion of suicides from guns... - 'Road rage' in Arizona: armed and dangerousMatthew Miller
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Accid Anal Prev 34:807-14. 2002..Our findings suggest that, at least among Arizona motorists, having a gun in the car is a strong marker for aggressive and illegal behavior behind the wheel... - Rates of household firearm ownership and homicide across US regions and states, 1988-1997Matthew Miller
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 92:1988-93. 2002..In this study we explored the association between rates of household firearm ownership and homicide across the United States, by age groups... - The epidemiology of case fatality rates for suicide in the northeastMatthew Miller
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Ann Emerg Med 43:723-30. 2004..We examine how method-specific case fatality rates for suicide differ by age and sex... - Neighborhood predictors of concealed firearm carrying among children and adolescents: results from the project on human development in Chicago neighborhoodsBeth E Molnar
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 158:657-64. 2004..Previous studies of concealed firearm carrying among children and adolescents have focused on individual risk factors... - Firearm storage practices and rates of unintentional firearm deaths in the United StatesMatthew Miller
Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, 3rd Fl, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Accid Anal Prev 37:661-7. 2005..Although these recommendations appeal to common sense, no study has yet addressed whether firearm storage practices influence the risk of unintentional firearm injury... - Firearms and suicide in the northeastMatthew Miller
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Trauma 57:626-32. 2004..A central question in suicide research is whether firearm availability increases the overall number of suicides rather than the proportion of suicides from guns... - Underestimates of unintentional firearm fatalities: comparing Supplementary Homicide Report data with the National Vital Statistics SystemC Barber
Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Inj Prev 8:252-6. 2002..This issue was examined by comparing how unintentional firearm injuries identified in police Supplementary Homicide Report (SHR) data were coded in the National Vital Statistics System...