The Journal of Behavioral Medicine has published its first special issue dedicated to gun violence, featuring research on gun violence data from Lori Ann Post, director of the Buehler Center for Health Policy & Economics ...
Aug 2, 2019
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JAMA Internal Medicine is publishing another collection of articles on firearm violence, including two original investigations, two commentaries and an editorial. JAMA also is publishing a research letter on gun violence ...
Jan 3, 2017
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Every week in the U.S. an average of 645 people lose their lives to firearm violence and 1,565 more are treated in an emergency department for a firearm-related injury. Most of these events do not make headlines, but they ...
Aug 31, 2015
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Gun violence remains a highly controversial issue in the wake of school shootings in Parkland, Florida, and other communities. At such times, politicians seem compelled to offer the public solutions.
Jun 19, 2018
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Bullying is an issue that is constantly in the news – either as a standalone story about a particularly egregious case or as a major contributor to much larger issues, including school shootings.
Mar 8, 2018
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In the wake of the horrific school shootings in Newtown, Conn. in December, three Harvard experts say the best way to curb gun violence in the U.S. is to take a broad public health approach, drawing on proven, evidence-based ...
Jan 7, 2013
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The mass shooting in Plano, Texas, this month was the deadliest of 2017. It also fit a pattern: The shooter had targeted his estranged wife and her friends and family—and had a history of intimate partner violence (IPV).
Sep 18, 2017
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Recent reports here and elsewhere in the media have focused on gun violence in the US, reporting a dramatic rise in mass shootings in 2020—despite the pandemic—which by November had overtaken the total for 2019. The term ...
Dec 9, 2020
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The magnitude of lives shortened by gun violence in the US since the turn of the century has been more than twice as great among black Americans—particularly those up to the age of 20—as it has been among whites, finds ...
Dec 4, 2018
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News stories about mass shootings involving a shooter with mental illness heighten readers' negative attitudes toward persons with serious mental illness, according to a new report by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of ...
Mar 20, 2013
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