{"id":49,"date":"2018-04-08T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kalesan\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2018-04-08T14:29:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T18:29:36","slug":"firearm-injury-research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kalesan\/firearm-injury-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Firearm Injury Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Research to inform prevention, treatment of heath consequences and policy on\u00a0gun violence<\/h3>\n<p>This\u00a0research program is committed to one of the most critical public health problems in the US- that of gun violence.\u00a0The following\u00a0topics are addressed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Federal and state level legislation surrounding guns, access to guns, and victims of gun violence.<\/li>\n<li>The effect and sustenance of social gun culture.<\/li>\n<li>The patterns, factors and consequences of gun ownership.<\/li>\n<li>Social, individual, spatial and legislative\u00a0drivers of deaths (fatal injuries) from gun\/bullet injuries.<\/li>\n<li>Assess the factors surrounding school and mass shootings.<\/li>\n<li>Differentiation between direct and indirect gun violence injury survivorship.\n<ul>\n<li>Direct gun violence injury survivor \u2013 is shot and survives the incident.<\/li>\n<li>Indirect\u00a0<span>gun violence injury survivor \u2013 is a person who has a parent, sibling, children, a close friend or a close relative who was either\u00a0shot and killed\u00a0or\u00a0survived a gun shot or bullet wound injury.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Social, individual, spatial and legislative\u00a0drivers of\u00a0non-fatal injury from guns\/bullets<\/li>\n<li>The injury\/ disease progression from the traumatic gunshot injury to several health consequences such as disability, cardiovascular diseases etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>RESEARCH STUDIES<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>1) <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kalesan\/firearm-injury-research\/soul-study\/\"><strong>SOcial gUn cuLture [SOUL study]<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2) <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kalesan\/firearm-injury-research\/eve-study\/\">EVE e-cohort study<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research to inform prevention, treatment of heath consequences and policy on\u00a0gun violence This\u00a0research program is committed to one of the most critical public health problems in the US- that of gun violence.\u00a0The following\u00a0topics are addressed: Federal and state level legislation surrounding guns, access to guns, and victims of gun violence. The effect and sustenance of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11338,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kalesan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kalesan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kalesan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kalesan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kalesan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kalesan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kalesan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kalesan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}