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Firearms and Suicide
Author(s) -
Brent David A.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2001.tb05808.x
Subject(s) - suicide prevention , epidemiology , poison control , environmental health , medicine , injury prevention , human factors and ergonomics , occupational safety and health , medical emergency , pathology
A bstract : The evidence linking firearms in the home to risk for suicide is reviewed. These data come from epidemiological, case‐control, quasiexperimental, and prospective studies. The convergent finding from this wide range of studies is that there is a strong relationship between firearms in the home and risk for suicide, most firmly established in the United States.