Open AccessEmerging Trends of Intentional Firearm Injuries in Northern India: A Study
Author(s) -
Irfan Hussain Khan,
M. Danish Shakeel,
Jawed Ahmad Usmani,
Shirin Hasan
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2016/23392.8760
Subject(s) - medicine , accidental , descriptive statistics , homicide , medical emergency , occupational safety and health , injury prevention , poison control , demography , statistics , physics , mathematics , pathology , sociology , acoustics
Many developing countries are facing rise in firearm injury cases owing to communal and ethnic clashes, political violence, armed robberies and suicide causing huge economic loss to society. On the basis of intention, injuries can be categorized as intentional and unintentional or accidental injuries. Intentional injuries will include suicidal, homicidal and assault related injuries.