Priorities for research to reduce the threat of firearm-related violence /

"In 2010, more than 105,000 people were injured or killed in the United States as the result of a firearm-related incident. Recent, highly publicized, tragic mass shootings in Newtown, CT; Aurora, CO; Oak Creek, WI; and Tucson, AZ, have sharpened the American public's interest in protectin...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Priorities for a Public Health Research Agenda to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence
Otros Autores: Leshner, Alan I., 1944- (Editor ), Altevogt, Bruce M. (Editor ), Lee, Arlene F. (Editor ), McCoy, Margaret A. (Editor ), Kelley, Patrick W. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : National Academies Press, [2013]
Temas:
Firearms and crime > United States.
Firearms and crime > Research > United States.
Firearms ownership > United States.
Violence > United States.
Violence > United States > Prevention.
Social control.
Public health.
Research.
Research > United States.
Firearms > legislation & jurisprudence > United States.
Violence > prevention & control > United States.
Violence > legislation & jurisprudence > United States.
Social Control, Formal > United States.
Wounds, Gunshot > epidemiology > United States.
Wounds, Gunshot > prevention and control > United States.
Public Health > United States.
Firearms > legislation & jurisprudence
Violence > prevention & control
Violence > legislation & jurisprudence
Social Control, Formal
Wounds, Gunshot > epidemiology
Wounds, Gunshot > prevention & control
Public Health
Research
Armes à feu et criminalité > États-Unis.
Armes à feu et criminalité > Recherche > États-Unis.
Armes à feu > Possession > États-Unis.
Violence > États-Unis.
Contrôle social.
Santé publique.
Recherche.
public health.
research (function)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Social control
Public health
Firearms and crime
Firearms ownership
Violence
Violence > Prevention
United States
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Summary
  • Introduction
  • Scope of the public health problem
  • Firearm-related violence as a public health issue
  • Applying public health strategies to reducing firearm violence
  • Study goals, methods, and organization of the report
  • An overarching issue: research design and data
  • Impact of existing federal restrictions on firearm violence research
  • Data quality, accessibility, and aggregation
  • Data to assess gun acquisition and storage
  • Data fragmentation and standardization
  • Research methods and challenges
  • Characteristics of firearm violence
  • Types and numbers of firearms
  • Types of firearm violence
  • Risk and protective factors associated with firearm-related violence
  • Society-level factors
  • Community-level factors
  • Situational factors
  • Individual-level factors
  • Firearm violence prevention and other interventions
  • Targeting unauthorized gun possession or use
  • Individual risk and protective factors
  • Social, physical, and virtual environmental interventions
  • Impact of gun safety technology
  • Gun technology safety features
  • Overview of past and ongoing research on gun safety technology
  • Challenges to developing gun safety technologies
  • Current and ongoing research
  • Video games and other media
  • Overview of past and ongoing research on media violence and violent acts
  • Longer-term longitudinal studies in youth on exposure to media violence.

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