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The Influence of Community Disadvantage and Opioid Pill Prescriptions on Overdose Deaths in American Counties
The aim of the current study is to examine factors related to opioid overdose deaths within the framework of social disorganization theory. We...
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The locus of dread for mass shooting risks: Distinguishing alarmist risk beliefs from risk preferences
Data from three surveys before and after the 2022 mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde provide a natural experiment to assess perceptions and...
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Unintentional firearm deaths in the United States 2005–2015
BackgroundUnintentional gun death occurs four times more often in the United States than other high-income countries. Research on these deaths...
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Firearm Violence in the Pediatric Population: An International Perspective
Firearm injuries are a serious public health problem for children and adolescents in the United States and even more of a problem in some low- and...
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Study protocol for a type III hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial of strategies to implement firearm safety promotion as a universal suicide prevention strategy in pediatric primary care
BackgroundInsights from behavioral economics, or how individuals’ decisions and behaviors are shaped by finite cognitive resources (e.g., time,...
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Firearm Suicides in the Elderly: A Narrative Review and Call for Action
Firearm suicides are one of the leading causes of death for older Americans. The purpose of this review is to explore the risk factors associated...
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The Covid-19 Pandemic and “Rising Deaths of Despair” in the United States
Rising rates of age-specific mortality fatal drug overdoses, suicides, and poisonings and accidents involving alcohol in the United States,...
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Traumatic brain injury related deaths in residents and non-residents of 30 European countries: a cross-sectional study
The incidence and mortality of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) among non-residents to countries where they occur remains unknown, warranting...
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What Can the Health Humanities Contribute to Our Societal Understanding of and Response to the Deaths of Despair Crisis?
Deaths of Despair (DoD), or mortality resulting from suicide, drug overdose, and alcohol-related liver disease, have been rising steadily in the...
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Factors contributing to homicide-suicide: differences between firearm and non-firearm deaths
The primary aim of this study is to determine the relationship between situational factors, method of death, and homicide-suicide deaths,...
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Age, period, and cohort effects on suicide death in the United States from 1999 to 2018: moderation by sex, race, and firearm involvement
The role of sex, race, and suicide method on recent increases in suicide mortality in the United States remains unclear. Estimating the age, period,...
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Geography, rurality, and community distress: deaths due to suicide, alcohol-use, and drug-use among Colorado Veterans
BackgroundIn the USA, deaths due to suicide, alcohol, or drug-related causes (e.g., alcohol-related liver disease, overdose) have doubled since 2002....
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Future Directions for Firearm Injury Intervention, Policy, and Research
Pediatric firearm injury is a national clinical and public health concern in the United States. Addressing this crisis requires a comprehensive...
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Examining a Hypothesized Causal Chain for the Effects of the 2007 Repeal of the Permit-to-Purchase Licensing Law in Missouri: Homicide Guns Recovered in State and within a Year of Purchase
Firearm-related deaths are a leading cause of death in the USA. Webster et al. (2014) found an association between Missouri’s repeal of a...
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Interpersonal Violence and Its Effect on Hospitalized Patients
The rate of injury and deaths from firearms is higher in the United States than in any other country in the world, and interpersonal violence...
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Automatic Firearm Detection in Images and Videos Using YOLO-Based Model
In this day and age, we are witness to ever increasing gun violence all around the world. Technology has surpassed all human beliefs where each...
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Changes in suicide in California from 2017 to 2021: a population-based study
BackgroundSuicide is a major public health problem with immediate and long-term effects on individuals, families, and communities. In 2020 and 2021,...
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The epidemiological and medico-legal characteristics of violent deaths and spousal homicides through a population of women autopsied within the Forensic Medicine Department of the University Hospital of Annaba
BackgroundDomestic violence is a real public health problem with considerable consequences, ranging from minor injuries to death. Our study aims to...
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Policing and Indigenous Civilian Deaths in Canada
With the recent growth in scholarship in the USA regarding police killings of civilians, it is notable that the topic has gone largely unstudied in...
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Intimate Partner Violence, Firearm Violence, and Human Rights in the United States
This chapter provides an overview of the intersection between intimate partner violence and firearm violence in the United States. It provides...