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FIREARM AVAILABILITY AND THE USE OF FIREARMS FOR SUICIDE AND HOMICIDE

Name: FIREARM AVAILABILITY AND THE USE OF FIREARMS FOR SUICIDE AND HOMICIDE
Creator: David Lester
Keywords: Cross-Cultural Comparison, Firearms, Suicide, 03 medical and health sciences, Cross-Sectional Studies, 0302 clinical medicine, Accidents, Cause of Death, Humans, Wounds, Gunshot

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 2000 English Publisher:SAGE PublicationsJournal:Perceptual and Motor Skills, volume 91, page 998 (issn: 0031-5125,

Authors: David Lester;

doi: 10.2466/pms.91.7.998-998 , 10.2466/pms.2000.91.3.998

pmid: 11153880

FIREARM AVAILABILITY AND THE USE OF FIREARMS FOR SUICIDE AND HOMICIDE

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Abstract

In a sample of 36 nations circa 1993, a measure of firearm availability based on the percentages of suicides and homicides using firearms gave better evidence for an association between firearm availability and their use for suicide and homicide than did the accidental firearm mortality rate.

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Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
United States

Keywords

Cross-Cultural Comparison, Firearms, Suicide, Cross-Sectional Studies, Accidents, Cause of Death, Humans, Wounds, Gunshot, Homicide

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