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Firearms and suicide in the United States.

Author(s) -

Robert E. Markush,

Alfred A. Bartolucci

Publication year - 1984

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.74.2.123

Subject(s) - census , american community survey , demography , suicide prevention , poison control , injury prevention , environmental health , human factors and ergonomics , geography , occupational safety and health , medicine , gerontology , population , sociology , pathology

Regional United States suicide rates in the mid 1970s were associated with the household prevalence of all guns and of pistols. The term "regional" applies to the nine Census divisions of the four US census regions. A literature review suggests that the relation may be etiologic, and that more definitive studies and pilot programs are needed. Arming may be an etiologic factor common both to individual and to national self-destructive behaviors.

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