Household firearm ownership and rates of suicide across the 50 United States

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1029-1034

  Miller, Matthew ^a   Lippmann, Steven J ^a   Azrael, Deborah ^a   Hemenway, David ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ILLICIT DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; FEMALE; FIREARM; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUICIDE; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNITED STATES; URBANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FIREARMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34247183169     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000198214.24056.40     Document Type: Article

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