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..We sought to provide additional information about the characteristics of adolescents who were most likely to cause unintentional injury to other people...

..To assess hostile gun use against and self-defense gun use by adolescents...

..Are motorists with guns in the car more or less likely to engage in hostile and aggressive behavior?..

..Key components of the success included a high-quality pilot version of the system and the mobilization of a large, bipartisan coalition of individuals, institutions, and agencies that advocated for federal funding for the system...

..To learn how to prevent unintentional injuries, it is critical to have information not only on the victim, but also on the person who inflicted the injury...

..To determine public attitudes in the United States concerning gun carrying...

..This study investigates whether the association can be explained by differences in levels of mental health...

..Social marketing campaigns designed to lower young people's perceptions about the prevalence of peer gun carrying may be a promising strategy for reducing actual gun carrying among youth...

..We examine whether the United States is merely an exception, or if a relationship between gun availability and homicide exists across all developed nations...

..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...

..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,..

..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...

..To assess the relationship between firearm ownership and possible psychiatric confounders of the firearm-suicide relationship...

..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...

..To determine gun storage practices in gun-owning households with children...

..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...

..This study examined the relation between smoking and suicide, controlling for various confounders...

..The present investigation was undertaken to estimate the proportion of community-residing adolescents who report that they have ever handled a gun without adult knowledge or supervision...

..Homicides in Jamaica are not primarily gang or robbery related. Rather, they are mainly caused by arguments or reprisals. Homicide has become a common feature of dispute resolution in Jamaica...

..CONCLUSION: Among high-income countries, where firearms are more available, more women are homicide victims. Women in the United States are at higher risk of homicide victimization than are women in any other high-income country...

..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...

..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...

..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...

..2 level. Targeted suicide prevention activities should supplement interventions focused on restricting access to highly lethal means of suicide such as firearms...

..Detailed contextual information about the circumstances in which batterers use guns to threaten intimate partners and potential protective and risk factors relevant to firearm use by batterers should be explored...

..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)...

..We examined associations between premigration political violence exposure and past-year intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration among immigrant men attending community health centers in Boston...

..Despite high rates of intimate partner violence in South Africa, there have been no national studies of men's perpetration of violence against female partners...

..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...

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..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...

..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...

..These findings suggest that the strength of the business case for patient safety depends on the perspective from which one views the data...

..In this study we explored the association between rates of household firearm ownership and homicide across the United States, by age groups...

..We examine how method-specific case fatality rates for suicide differ by age and sex...

..This national study attempts to determine whether firearm prevalence is related to rates of unintentional firearm deaths, suicides, and homicides among children...

..A central question in suicide research is whether firearm availability increases the overall number of suicides rather than the proportion of suicides from guns...

..In the United States, more than 45,000 women died from gun violence over the last decade...

..Students who reported having firearms at college disproportionately reported that they engaged in behaviors that put themselves and others at risk for injury...

..Although these recommendations appeal to common sense, no study has yet addressed whether firearm storage practices influence the risk of unintentional firearm injury...

..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...

..quot; Many true accidents are missed, while many suicides and homicides are mistakenly reported as accidents. By contrast, the NVDRS applies a case definition for unintentional firearm deaths with consistency and accuracy...

..CONCLUSION: While the analysis cannot show causation, states with heavily armed civilians are also states with low levels of social capital...

..The endeavor to reduce gun violence is part of the general and continuing public health struggle to reduce harms caused by consumer products...

..g. seat belt use). Messages should be culturally appropriate and should emphasize driver seat belt use in conjunction with rear seating and the importance of rear seating regardless of the presence of a passenger-side airbag...

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..This article discusses two examples of such experimental designs and analyses, in which, unfortunately, the researchers touted their null results as strong evidence of no effect...

..Recommendations for strengthening relevant gun laws both within and outside of Massachusetts are discussed...

..To estimate the effect of a new road traffic law against alcohol-impaired driving in Japan...

..To date, little empirical data exist to characterise the nature of men's sexual risk as it relates to both their violence perpetration, and STI/HIV infection...

..Incentives and exposure to the program across multiple channels seemed to have the greatest effect. CONCLUSIONS: Independent of legislation, community-based programs incorporating incentives can increase child rear seating...

..2, 95% CI = 2.5, 42.1) and ever being shot at (OR = 4.6, 95% CI = 1.7, 12.2), were associated with carrying guns. These findings provide further evidence of a link between crack selling (but not necessarily drug using) and gun carrying...

..Our primary objective was to evaluate demographic and causal factors of inhospital mortality for significant firearm-related injuries (i.e., those with an Injury Severity Score [ISS] > 12) in Canadian trauma centres...

..This article summarizes the Collaborative's conclusions and identifies priorities for research and funding...

..Continued research about violent deaths might provide a better understanding of homicides followed by suicides--critical for surveillance and prevention efforts...

..3 days (P<0.001, 85% of variation) between remote and non-remote regions. Policies are discussed aimed at reducing the impact of travel distance on rural mental health care through inter-disciplinary collaboration and telepsychiatry...