Firearm legislation and firearm mortality in the USA: A cross-sectional, state-level study

The Lancet

Volumn 387, Issue 10030, 2016, Pages 1847-1855

  Kalesan, Bindu ^a   Mobily, Matthew E ^c   Keiser, Olivia ^e   Fagan, Jeffrey A ^d   Galea, Sandro ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Medicine   (United States)

^d The Earth Institute at Columbia University   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEATH; FIREARM; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; LAW; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GUNSHOT INJURY; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FIREARMS; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 84960172957     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)01026-0     Document Type: Article

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