Firearm Injury Research
Research to inform prevention, treatment of heath consequences and policy on gun violence
This research program is committed to one of the most critical public health problems in the US- that of gun violence. The following topics are addressed:
- Federal and state level legislation surrounding guns, access to guns, and victims of gun violence.
- The effect and sustenance of social gun culture.
- The patterns, factors and consequences of gun ownership.
- Social, individual, spatial and legislative drivers of deaths (fatal injuries) from gun/bullet injuries.
- Assess the factors surrounding school and mass shootings.
- Differentiation between direct and indirect gun violence injury survivorship.
- Direct gun violence injury survivor – is shot and survives the incident.
- Indirect gun violence injury survivor – is a person who has a parent, sibling, children, a close friend or a close relative who was either shot and killed or survived a gun shot or bullet wound injury.
- Social, individual, spatial and legislative drivers of non-fatal injury from guns/bullets
- The injury/ disease progression from the traumatic gunshot injury to several health consequences such as disability, cardiovascular diseases etc.
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