The epidemiology of firearm violence in the twenty-first century United States

Annual Review of Public Health

Volumn 36, Issue , 2015, Pages 5-19

  Garen, J Wintemute ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Firearms; Homicide; Mortality; Suicide

Indexed keywords

AGE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FIREARM; FIREARM VIOLENCE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; FEMALE; INFANT; MALE; MASS DISASTER; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925234952     PISSN: 01637525     EISSN: 15452093     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031914-122535     Document Type: Review

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