[HTML][HTML] Surveillance for violent deaths—National Violent Death Reporting System, 48 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, 2021

BL Nguyen - MMWR. Surveillance Summaries, 2024 - cdc.gov
Abstract Problem/Condition: In 2021, approximately 75,000 persons died of violence-related
injuries in the United States. This report summarizes data from CDC's National Violent Death …

Disparities in traumatic brain injury-related deaths—the United States, 2021

A Peterson, K Thomas, S Kegler - Brain Injury, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives: This manuscript describes traumatic brain injury (TBI)-related mortality in the
United States during 2021, by geography, sociodemographic characteristics, mechanism of …

[HTML][HTML] Emergency department visits for firearm injuries before and during the COVID-19 pandemic—United States, January 2019–December 2022

ML Zwald - MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2023 - cdc.gov
Weekly numbers of firearm injury emergency department (ED) visits began to increase in
March 2020 even as the total number of ED visits declined, and sharply increased in late …

The uprise of gun violence in the United States: consequences of a dual pandemic

M Schellenberg, A Walters - Current Opinion in Anesthesiology, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and the anti-Black racism movement have
produced a social environment in the United States in recent years where interpersonal …

Promoting informed decision-making in a primary care practice by implementing decision aids

CL Lewis, MP Pignone - North Carolina medical journal, 2009 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Empowering patients to be effective advocates for their health requires that they have
adequate information and understanding about their health conditions. Many patients have …

Firearm Homicide Rates, by Race and Ethnicity--United States, 2019-2022.

SR Kegler, TR Simon… - MMWR: Morbidity & …, 2023 - search.ebscohost.com
The article provides a report on provisional firearm homicide data for 2022, stratified by race
and ethnicity, presented both annually and by month to document subannual changes in the …

Social and structural determinants of community firearm violence and community trauma

SAL Buggs, ND Kravitz-Wirtz… - The ANNALS of the …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The adverse impacts of community firearm violence in the US are unequally felt across
geographic and various sociodemographic segments of our population. Researchers …

Reciprocal neighborhood dynamics in gun violence exposure, community health, and concentrated disadvantage in one hundred US cities

DC Semenza, R Stansfield, IA Silver, B Savage - Journal of urban health, 2023 - Springer
Gun violence imparts a tremendous human and financial toll on local communities.
Researchers have documented extensive mental and physical health consequences of …

Firearm violence exposure and health in 2 national samples of Black and American Indian/Alaska Native adults

DC Semenza, N Baker, D Ziminski - Health affairs scholar, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Exposure to firearm violence is widespread and disproportionately experienced by
communities of color, with implications for broad health disparities. Survey data were …

Addressing mental health needs of secondary homicide survivors through a social determinants of health framework

LA Magee, D Semenza, S Gharbi… - Homicide …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Drawing on a social determinants of health framework, death records and Medicaid data
were linked at the individual and family level to examine mental health outcomes among …