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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2019.05.001 | DOI Listing |
J Am Coll Surg
January 2025
Department of Surgery, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, 2 Tampa General Circle 7 Floor, Tampa, FL.
Background: Firearm violence in America has been declared a public health crisis. This study investigates variation in firearm injuries by county-level characteristics and intent of firearm use.
Study Design: The open-access FLHealthCHARTS was searched for firearm injuries from 1989-2022.
Trauma Surg Acute Care Open
January 2025
Dewitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA.
Background: Financial toxicity refers to financial hardship experienced because of illness or injury. Poverty is a known driver of community violence, but financial toxicity has not been studied in firearm violence survivors. The objective of our study was to explore the financial needs of firearm violence survivors enrolled in a hospital-based violence intervention program (HVIP).
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January 2025
Department of Pediatric Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, Galveston, Texas. Electronic address:
Introduction: Hospital-based violence intervention programs primarily target adults, raising questions about the effectiveness in preventing pediatric firearm deaths. We hypothesized that pediatric and adult firearm injury deaths are different enough to require unique intervention strategies.
Methods: Retrospective chart review was conducted of medical examiner and trauma center records of firearm-related deaths in the largest metropolitan county in Texas.
PNAS Nexus
January 2025
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1202 W Johnson St, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
Mass shootings are devastating events. Communities can cope with the ensuing trauma in a number of ways, including changing their behavioral patterns. Using point-of-sale data from 35,000 individual retailers, including more than half of all American grocery and drugstore purchases, and all American mass shootings from 2006 to 2019, we find, in a set of two-way fixed-effects counterfactual analyses, that a mass shooting in a given community (the area covered by the ZIP-3 code) predicts a significant increase in the sales of alcohol that lasts at least 2 years past the shooting.
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