A novel machine-learning tool to identify community risk for firearm violence: The Firearm Violence Vulnerability Index

Polcari, Ann; Hoefer, Lea; Zakrison, Tanya L.; Cone, Jennifer; Henry, Marion C.W.; Slidell, Mark B.; Benjamin, Andrew

doi:10.1097/ta.0000000000003992

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“…Poulson et al also demonstrate the limitations of our public health indices, showing that the Social Vulnerability Index did not mediate the association between incarceration and firearm homicide. This has also been demonstrated by Polcari et al, who developed the Firearm Violence Vulnerability Index to predict firearm violence on a census-tract level, with historical third-grade math scores and a parent incarcerated during childhood the most predictive population characteristics.…”

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The Link Between State Carceral Violence and Firearm Homicide

Chaudhary,

Zakrison,

Richardson

2024

JAMA Surg

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The Link Between State Carceral Violence and Firearm Homicide

Chaudhary,

Zakrison,

Richardson

2024

JAMA Surg

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“…Mass incarceration and redlining-like discriminatory practices funneling businesses, social services, and grocery stores away and replacing them with chronic diseases and poverty. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] I cease my stream of consciousness to get this young man to the sixth floor, where an operating room awaits.…”

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“…I remember that gun violence persists because of willful ignorance and its roots in the nation's capitalism, structural racism, and pervasive gun culture. 4,7,10,12,13 It is 3:30 AM now, where did the time go? My attending and I did three operations.…”

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Survivor’s Remorse

Douglas,

Rogers

2023

J Trauma Acute Care Surg

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In urban, large metropolitan trauma centers we are accustomed to seeing the most gruesome morbidity and mortality in medicine. By far the most devastating morbidity and mortality to observe is that inflicted on one human being to another. Gun violence is pervasive in this industrialized country, and it impacts us all. Staff, residents, and faculty in trauma centers bear the brunt of this trauma, second only to the families and communities which suffer the loss of loved ones. This burden is especially heavy for health care workers who share the same ethnic background of those who are disproportionately affected by interpersonal gun violence. Survivors of gun violence exist on a spectrum of chronic illness. An illness that ranges in physical and mental morbidity and social disruption in loss of wages and capabilities. This disease not only infects those wounded or killed, but it also transmits through communities and generations. Urban violence exists because of historic and systematic racism. It continues to persist because racism creates inequities in the quality of education, housing, and investment in urban environments, exacerbated by residential segregation. For two providers, a trainee and a faculty member of African descent, conscious of the determinants which create gun violence, it is overwhelming. We, as health care providers must tell our stories and the stories of those whose voices are not empowered. We can hope that by sharing these experiences we stimulate action and change by raising the moral conscious of those unaware of the tragedies we witness every day.

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