Americans Who Become a New Versus a Former Gun Owner: Implications for Youth Suicide and Unintentional Firearm Injury

Am J Public Health. 2019 Feb;109(2):212-214. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2018.304882.

Authors

Joseph Wertz¹, Deborah Azrael¹, Matthew Miller¹

Affiliation

¹ Joseph Wertz is with Harvard College, Cambridge, MA, and the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, T. H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Deborah Azrael is with the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. Matthew Miller is with the Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Department of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, and the Harvard Injury Control Research Center.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Child
Family Characteristics
Female
Firearms / statistics & numerical data*
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Risk
Suicide Prevention*
Suicide* / statistics & numerical data
United States / epidemiology
Wounds, Gunshot* / epidemiology
Wounds, Gunshot* / prevention & control
Young Adult