Sentences with phrase «firearm injuries»

The study abstract, «Hospitalizations for Firearm Injuries in Children and Adolescents in the US: Rural Versus Urban,» will be presented Monday, Sept. 18, at the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference & Exhibition in Chicago.

«We were on opposite sides of the heated battle 16 years ago, but we are in strong agreement now that scientific research should be conducted into preventing firearm injuries and that ways to prevent firearm deaths can be found without encroaching on the rights of legitimate gun owners,» they wrote.

There's limited evidence that laws that guarantee a right to carry increase unintentional firearm injuries among adults and increase violent crime.

However, previous studies have not examined the differences in rates of firearm injury hospitalizations between rural and urban areas by age group.

Unintentional shootings led to more than one - third of the non-fatal firearm injuries, the authors found.

«This study helps to build our understanding of the problem by providing more detailed data on hospitalizations for firearm injuries in different pediatric age groups in both urban and rural communities.»

According to an analysis of fatal and nonfatal childhood firearm injuries compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black children face the highest rates of firearm mortality, a difference largely driven by black youth being more likely to face a firearm homicide.

According to a 2017 analysis of fatal and nonfatal childhood firearm injuries compiled by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black children face the highest rates of firearm mortality — a difference largely driven by black youth being more likely to be shooting victims than children from other racial groups.

«The public health consequences are likely to be even greater than what we identified in our study because there are roughly 12 times as many non-fatal accidental firearm injuries among children as there are deaths,» explained McKnight.

Accidental firearm injuries were the most common cause of hospitalization across all age groups in urban or rural locations, except for 15 - to 19 - year - olds living in urban areas (for which firearm assaults were highest).

Researchers found that most of the pediatric firearm injuries resulting in hospitalization occurred among older teens (ages 15 to 19) and that those living in urban areas had the highest rate of hospitalization.

What You Can Do, launched today by the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program, offers information and support for providers looking for ways to reduce firearm injury and death, particularly among patients at elevated risk.

In a 2012 Washington Post op - ed, former U.S. Representative Jay Dickey (R - Arkansas) and Mark Rosenberg, president and CEO of the Task Force for Global Health, wrote that «the United States has spent about $ 240 million a year on traffic safety research, but there has been almost no publicly funded research on firearm injuries.»

Megan Ranney, an emergency physician and researcher at Brown University in Providence, R.I., who studies firearm injuries, tweeted the «announcement changes nothing.

Researchers examining pediatric firearm injuries found that the age a child is injured by a gun is closely related to where he or she lives: the city or the country.

Researchers also found that rates of hospitalization for firearm injuries due to suicide attempts were higher in rural areas compared to urban areas among older teens.

For more information on protecting children from guns within a home, visit American Association of Pediatrics site and read the publication, Guns in the Home: An Opportunity for All Pediatricians to Help Prevent Firearm Injuries

There's solid evidence that these laws reduce unintentional firearm injuries and deaths among children.

Looking to make an impact, he wondered, «What subset of firearm injuries can people simply not turn away from?»

The new report in Health Affairs calculates the price tag for firearm injuries: $ 2.8 billion a year in American hospital charges and $ 46 billion a year in lost work and medical care.

Prior research has identified male gender, non-white race, low median income and late adolescent age as risk factors for both fatal and non-fatal firearm injuries.

In 2012, he and Mark Rosenberg, who directed the CDC when the Dickey Amendment was approved, co-authored a Washington Post editorial calling for scientific research to prevent firearm injuries.

«A startling number» of people, 78,000 a year, are treated in U.S. hospitals for firearm injuries, said lead author Dr. Faiz Gani in a phone interview.

There's some evidence these laws also reduce adult unintentional firearm injuries and deaths.

Firearm injuries are a leading cause of injury and death for children and adolescents in the United States.

«Compared with other causes of death in the United States, there is a relative scarcity of research on understanding the epidemiology of firearm injuries, and this is particularly true for the pediatric population,» said lead author Bradley Herrin, MD, a pediatrician at the Yale School of Medicine.

There's also growing momentum behind creating a reliable national database for firearm injuries and deaths.