A Public Health Approach to Gun Violence, Legally Speaking

A public health approach to gun violence.

Public health approach to the prevention of gun violence.

Implementing a public health approach to gun violence prevention: the importance of physician engagement.

The first month of 2013 brought more discussion about gun policy and more action from our state and national leaders than has occurred in decades. The release of the Vice President’s task force report, the President’s executive actions, and the bills in Congress and several state legislatures are all indications that the country is poised to change how it regulates access to guns. Whether and t...

States take a public health approach to curb gun violence. Interview by Bridget M. Kuehn.

Public outcry over the mass shootings in Connecticut, Colorado, and otherpartsof thecountry in thepast year has reignited legislative efforts to curb firearmviolence,which results inmore than 30 000US deaths annually. In April, the US Senate failed to pass legislation that would have closed loopholes in background checks for firearm buyers. But some state legislatures, including Colorado, Conne...

Curbing gun violence: lessons from public health successes.

THE TRAGIC SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENTS IN NEWTOWN, Connecticut, has horrified and refocused the nation on the burden of gun violence. Each year in the United States, more than 30 000 individuals are killed by guns' (homicides, suicides, and unintentional fatalities)—85 deaths per day plus many hundreds of nonfatal injuries. Gun homicide alone causes 11000 deaths each year,' more than all US troops k...