Violent Death Rates: The US Compared with Other High-income OECD Countries, 2010

Grinshteyn, Erin; Hemenway, David

doi:10.1016/j.amjmed.2015.10.025

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“…The US rate of suicide by firearm is 8 times higher and the rate of homicide by firearm is 25 times higher than the rates in other economically developed countries (Grinshteyn & Hemenway 2016). Although mass shootings capture the news cycle on an all too frequent basis, the quotidian toll of gun-related violent crime, domestic violence (DV), and suicide shatters lives and erodes communities.…”

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The Link Between Mental Illness and Firearm Violence: Implications for Social Policy and Clinical Practice

Rozel

Mulvey

2017

Annu. Rev. Clin. Psychol.

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The United States has substantially higher levels of firearm violence than most other developed countries. Firearm violence is a significant and preventable public health crisis. Mental illness is a weak risk factor for violence despite popular misconceptions reflected in the media and policy. That said, mental health professionals play a critical role in assessing their patients for violence risk, counseling about firearm safety, and guiding the creation of rational and evidence-based public policy that can be effective in mitigating violence risk without unnecessarily stigmatizing people with mental illness. This article summarizes existing evidence about the interplay among mental illness, violence, and firearms, with particular attention paid to the role of active symptoms, addiction, victimization, and psychosocial risk factors. The social and legal context of firearm ownership is discussed as a preface to exploring practical, evidence-driven, and behaviorally informed policy recommendations for mitigating firearm violence risk.

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The Link Between Mental Illness and Firearm Violence: Implications for Social Policy and Clinical Practice

Rozel

Mulvey

2017

Annu. Rev. Clin. Psychol.

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“…About 1 in 3 of those individuals (33 599), including nearly 2000 children and adolescents, died as a result of their injuries. The US has the highest rate of firearm-related deaths among populous, high-income nations, accounting for approximately 80% of all firearm deaths among them 2. However, this problem is not limited to the US, as firearm injury is a common method of suicide across the Americas and Europe 3 4…”

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Evaluation of a community-based safe firearm and ammunition storage intervention

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“…[1][2][3][4][5] As a public health issue, the costs of firearm violence in the United States are large and extend beyond the loss of life and emotional burden for affected individuals and families. Significant costs are also borne by taxpayers and society at large, with more than $48 billion per year in medical and work-loss costs alone.…”

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Urban Blight Remediation as a Cost-Beneficial Solution to Firearm Violence

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Objectives. To determine if blight remediation of abandoned buildings and vacant lots can be a cost-beneficial solution to firearm violence in US cities.Methods. We performed quasi-experimental analyses of the impacts and economic returns on investment of urban blight remediation programs involving 5112 abandoned buildings and vacant lots on the occurrence of firearm and nonfirearm violence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1999 to 2013. We adjusted before-after percent changes and returns on investment in treated versus control groups for sociodemographic factors.Results. Abandoned building remediation significantly reduced firearm violence -39% (95% confidence interval [CI] = -28%, -50%; P < .05) as did vacant lot remediation (-4.6%; 95% CI = -4.2%, -5.0%; P < .001). Neither program significantly affected nonfirearm violence. Respectively, taxpayer and societal returns on investment for the prevention of firearm violence were $5 and $79 for every dollar spent on abandoned building remediation and $26 and $333 for every dollar spent on vacant lot remediation.Conclusions. Only a modicum of attention has been paid to intervening upon the context within which firearm violence occurs and the urban environments in which it thrives. It is now commonly accepted that changing the context within which health problems occur is a leading opportunity for high-impact change, often better than focusing on individuals and lifestyles. [13][14][15][16][17] This may also apply to firearm violence-individuals who are simply instructed to adhere to safety practices are unlikely to be successful if the unsafe context within which they find themselves day after day does not permit it. Directly changing the contexts and environments that promote firearm violence is a potentially potent solution to explore in reducing the persistent problem of firearm violence in the United States. Such contextual changes may take the form of actual, in-situ changes to the environments themselves, an approach that may be more politically feasible, economically viable, and have a greater probability of widespread implementation. 13,18 Cities in the United States experience a heavily disproportionate burden of the nation's interpersonal firearm violence. 19Urban shootings are concentrated in neighborhoods stricken by poverty and neglect, and a growing body of scientific evidence suggests that blighted neighborhood environments are strongly tied to firearm violence in US cities. 9,[20][21][22][23][24][25] It is very possible that directly treating aspects of these blighted environments in inexpensive ways could produce lasting reductions in urban firearm violence. However, to our knowledge, no research has yet investigated the cost benefits, Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021 (e-mail: cbranas@upenn.edu). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking the "Reprints" link.

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Violent Death Rates: The US Compared with Other High-income OECD Countries, 2010

Cited by 350 publications

References 13 publications

The Link Between Mental Illness and Firearm Violence: Implications for Social Policy and Clinical Practice

The Link Between Mental Illness and Firearm Violence: Implications for Social Policy and Clinical Practice

Evaluation of a community-based safe firearm and ammunition storage intervention

Urban Blight Remediation as a Cost-Beneficial Solution to Firearm Violence

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