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Firearm-related deaths in the United States and 35 other high- and upper-middle-income countries

Author(s) -

Etienne Krug

Publication year - 1998

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/27.2.214

Subject(s) - homicide , medicine , injury prevention , demography , poison control , suicide prevention , occupational safety and health , public health , high income countries , developed country , incidence (geometry) , mortality rate , environmental health , developing country , population , surgery , economic growth , physics , nursing , pathology , sociology , optics , economics

The Forty-Ninth World Health Assembly recently declared violence a worldwide public health problem. Improved understanding of cross-national differences is useful for identifying risk factors and may facilitate prevention efforts. Few cross-national studies, however, have explored firearm-related deaths. We compared the incidence of firearm-related deaths among 36 countries.

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