Health System Interventions to Prevent Firearms Injuries and Death: Proceedings of a Workshop

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Summarizes the proceedings of a workshop focused on how healthcare systems can reduce gun violence and injuries. Discusses the impact of health systems on the reduction, ways to identify high risk individuals, health system interventions, program examples, and more. Addresses rural in several chapters, including firearm homicide and suicide rates for rural and urban areas, a VA program targeting rural veterans at risk for suicide, a study of gun behavior in Alaska Native populations, and recommendations from a rural physician.

Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice

02/2019

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Health and Medicine Division (HMD), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Abuse and violence · American Indian or Alaska Native · Injuries · Public health · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Suicide and suicide prevention · Veterans