"Love our kids, lock your guns": A community-based firearm safety counseling and gun lock distribution program

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 155, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 659-664

  Coyne Beasley, Tamera ^a   Schoenbach, Victor J ^b   Johnson, Renee M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FIREARM; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; PARENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0034995512     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.155.6.659     Document Type: Article

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