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| J S VernickSummaryAffiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Country: USA Publications
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Lobbying and advocacy for the public's health: what are the limits for nonprofit organizations?J S Vernick
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Public Health 89:1425-9. 1999..These exceptions include "non-partisan analysis, study, or research" and discussions of broad social problems. Lobbying with federal or earmarked foundation funds is generally prohibited...
Interventions to reduce risks associated with vehicle incompatibilityJon S Vernick
Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 North Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Epidemiol Rev 34:57-64. 2012..However, others have yet to be required by regulators or voluntarily agreed to by manufacturers. If larger, heavier vehicles remain on the nation's roads, countermeasures will be needed to reduce risks for occupants of other vehicles...- Availability of litigation as a public health tool for firearm injury prevention: comparison of guns, vaccines, and motor vehiclesJon S Vernick
Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Center for Gun Policy and Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Public Health 97:1991-7. 2007..The absence of both litigation and product safety rules for firearms is a potentially dangerous combination for the public's health... 
Public health benefits of recent litigation against the tobacco industryJon S Vernick
Center for Law and the Public's Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
JAMA 298:86-9. 2007- Policies to prevent firearm traffickingJon S Vernick
Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Inj Prev 13:78-9. 2007 - Injury prevention policy forumJ S Vernick
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Inj Prev 12:382-4. 2006 - Counseling about firearms: proposed legislation is a threat to physicians and their patientsJon S Vernick
Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Pediatrics 118:2168-72. 2006..The Virginia bill was defeated, in part, through the efforts of physicians to educate legislators. However, physicians must remain prepared to respond to similar state legislative initiatives in the future... - Changing the constitutional landscape for firearms: the US Supreme Court's recent Second Amendment decisionsJon S Vernick
Johns HopkinsBloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Am J Public Health 101:2021-6. 2011..The court identified broad categories of gun laws-other than handgun bans-that remain presumptively valid but did not provide a standard to judge their constitutionality. We discuss ways that researchers can assist decision makers... - Unintentional and undetermined firearm related deaths: a preventable death analysis for three safety devicesJ S Vernick
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Center for Gun Policy and Research, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Inj Prev 9:307-11. 2003..A personalized gun will operate only for an authorized user, a LCI indicates when the gun contains ammunition, and a magazine safety prevents the gun from firing when the ammunition magazine is removed... - Role of litigation in preventing product-related injuriesJon S Vernick
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 North Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Epidemiol Rev 25:90-8. 2003 - Effects of Maryland's law banning Saturday night special handguns on crime gunsJ S Vernick
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Center for Injury Research and Policy and Center for Gun Policy and Research, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Inj Prev 5:259-63. 1999..To determine the effects of a 1988 Maryland law that banned "Saturday night special" handguns on the types of guns used in crime. To determine if controls on the lawful market for handguns affect the illegal market as well... - Relationship between licensing, registration, and other gun sales laws and the source state of crime gunsD W Webster
Center for Injury Research and Policy, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205 1996, USA
Inj Prev 7:184-9. 2001..To determine the association between licensing and registration of firearm sales and an indicator of gun availability to criminals... - Regulation of firearm dealers in the United States: an analysis of state law and opportunities for improvementJon S Vernick
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA
J Law Med Ethics 34:765-75. 2006..Our findings can be useful for the coalition of more than fifty U.S. mayors that recently announced it would work together to combat illegal gun trafficking... - Disaster-related injuries in the period of recovery: the effect of prolonged displacement on risk of injury in older adultsLori Uscher-Pines
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
J Trauma 67:834-40. 2009..The aim of this study was to determine whether Katrina victims who were displaced for a prolonged period of time were more likely to experience injuries than nondisplaced victims... - The pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act: improving public health emergency responseJames G Hodge
Center for Law and the Public's Health at Georgetown, Washington, DC, USA
JAMA 297:1708-11. 2007 - Effects of a gun dealer's change in sales practices on the supply of guns to criminalsDaniel W Webster
Center for Gun Policy and Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Urban Health 83:778-87. 2006..Proposed anti-gun-trafficking efforts in other cities could benefit from targeting problem retail outlets... - Effects of Maryland's law banning "Saturday night special" handguns on homicidesDaniel W Webster
Center for Injury Research and Policy, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Rm 593, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Epidemiol 155:406-12. 2002..Excluding this outlier, the model estimated a 15% increase in firearm homicides associated with the Saturday night special ban. None of the models revealed significant law effects on nonfirearm homicides... - Newspaper coverage of residential fires: an opportunity for prevention communicationKatherine Clegg Smith
Health, Behavior and Society, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Inj Prev 13:110-4. 2007..The news media is one available communication channel to promote such strategies, and analyzing current news coverage is a first step towards incorporating media advocacy into injury prevention efforts related to residential fires... - Women with protective orders report failure to remove firearms from their abusive partners: results from an exploratory studyDaniel W Webster
Center for Gun Policy and Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 19:93-8. 2010..The purpose of this study was to describe the perceptions of women who sought court protection orders for domestic violence (PODV) about actions to implement laws intended to disarm their abusers... - Effects of state-level firearm seller accountability policies on firearm traffickingDaniel W Webster
Center for Gun Policy and Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Urban Health 86:525-37. 2009..Relatively low prevalence of gun ownership may also be a prerequisite for passage of discretionary purchase. We observed no effect on intrastate trafficking of laws limiting handgun sales to a maximum of one per person per month... - Association between youth-focused firearm laws and youth suicidesDaniel W Webster
Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
JAMA 292:594-601. 2004..Many state and federal laws include age-specific restrictions on the purchase, possession, or storage of firearms; however, the association between these laws and suicides among youth has not been carefully examined... - Interventions for the primary prevention of work-related carpal tunnel syndromeA E Lincoln
Center for Injury Research and Policy, Department of Health Policy and Management, The John s Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205 1996, USA
Am J Prev Med 18:37-50. 2000..To evaluate interventions for the primary prevention of work-related carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS)... - Effects of undercover police stings of gun dealers on the supply of new guns to criminalsD W Webster
Center for Gun Policy and Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 1996, USA
Inj Prev 12:225-30. 2006..To assess the effects of undercover police stings and lawsuits against gun dealers suspected of facilitating illegal gun sales in three US cities (Chicago, Detroit, Gary) on the flow of new firearms to criminals... - Separating batterers and guns: a review and analysis of gun removal laws in 50 StatesShannon Frattaroli
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Eval Rev 30:296-312. 2006..The authors examine relevant characteristics of the laws and recommend that these laws be mandatory, apply to all guns and ammunition possessed by an abuser, and include clear procedures to enhance implementation... - Technologies to detect concealed weapons: fourth amendment limits on a new public health and law enforcement toolJon S Vernick
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA
J Law Med Ethics 31:567-79. 2003 - Firearm suicide in Maryland: characteristics of older versus younger suicide victimsJon S Vernick
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, MD, USA
Md Med 6:24-7. 2005 - The Baltimore Youth Ammunition Initiative: a model application of local public health authority in preventing gun violenceNancy L Lewin
Center for Gun Policy and Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Public Health 95:762-5. 2005..More important, the initiative can serve as a policy model for health commissioners seeking to become more active in gun violence prevention efforts... - How litigation can promote product safetyJon S Vernick
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA
J Law Med Ethics 32:551-5. 2004 - The ethics of restrictive licensing for handguns: comparing the United States and Canadian approaches to handgun regulationJon S Vernick
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA
J Law Med Ethics 35:668-78, 513. 2007..The authors conclude that the Canadian approach is consistent with respect for the autonomy of persons, fosters the prevention of harms, and more appropriately furthers social justice... - Factors associated with injury severity in Oklahoma City bombing survivorsMary T Glenshaw
Center for Injury Research and Policy, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
J Trauma 66:508-15. 2009..The objective of this study was to identify personal and environmental risk factors for injury severity in the Oklahoma City bombing, on April 19, 1995... - Effects of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's control of hazardous energy (lockout/tagout) standard on rates of machinery-related fatal occupational injuryMaria T Bulzacchelli
Center for Injury Research and Policy, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Inj Prev 13:334-8. 2007..The standard, which took effect in 1990, requires employers in certain industries to establish an energy control program and sets minimum criteria for energy control procedures, training, inspections, and hardware... - Circumstances of fatal lockout/tagout-related injuries in manufacturingMaria T Bulzacchelli
Department of Public Health, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
Am J Ind Med 51:728-34. 2008..Over the past few decades, hundreds of manufacturing workers have suffered fatal injuries while performing maintenance and servicing on machinery and equipment. Using lockout/tagout procedures could have prevented many of these deaths... - How the law affects gun policy in the United States: law as intervention or obstacle to preventionJon S Vernick
Georgetown University Law Center, USA
J Law Med Ethics 30:692-704. 2002 - The dimensions of public health law researchHeather Horton
Office of the General Counsel, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
J Law Med Ethics 30:197-201. 2002..In addition to considering the issue of translating research into practice, the article provides overviews of three current public health law research projects and the lessons they provide for researchers... - Lethal injections: the law, science, and politics of syringe access for injection drug usersScott Burris
Temple Univesity Beasley School of Law, USA
Univ San Francisco Law Rev 37:813-85. 2003 - Addressing the "risk environment" for injection drug users: the mysterious case of the missing copScott Burris
Temple University, Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Milbank Q 82:125-56. 2004.... - Balancing public health and civil libertiesLawrence O Gostin
Science 298:2129; author reply 2129. 2002 - Making vehicles saferJon S Vernick
Am J Public Health 94:170; author reply 171-2. 2004 - The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act: planning for and response to bioterrorism and naturally occurring infectious diseasesLawrence O Gostin
Center for Law and the Public s Health, Georgetown University, 600 New Jersey Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
JAMA 288:622-8. 2002..Law can be a tool to improve public health preparedness. A constitutional democracy must balance the common good with respect for personal dignity, toleration of groups, and adherence to principles of justice...