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ArticleJournal of health care for the poor and underserved2012

Firearms, youth homicide, and public health.

Robert S Levine, Irwin Goldzweig, Barbara Kilbourne, Paul Juarez

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Article in Journal of health care for the poor and underserved, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Preparing for Disaster: a Cross-Sectional Study of Social Connection and Gun Violence.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2017
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  3. Article
  4. Tuskegee redux: evolution of legal mandates for human experimentation.Journal of health care for the poor and underserved · 2012
    Article
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Robert S LevineMeharry Medical College, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Nashville, TN 37205, USA.
Irwin Goldzweig
Barbara Kilbourne
Paul Juarez

Funding

Training/Education CoreP20MD000516 · NIMHD · MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE · PI ZOOROB, ROGER J · 2003 to 2013
$14.2M
NIMHD NIH HHS P20 MD000516
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Homicide is seven times as common among U.S. non-Hispanic Black as among non-Hispanic White youth ages 15 to 24 years. In 83% of these youth homicides, the murder weapon is a firearm. Yet, for more than a decade, the national public health position on youth violence has been largely silent about the role of firearms, and tools used by public health professionals to reduce harm from other potential hazards have been unusable where guns are concerned. This deprives already underserved populations from the full benefits public health agencies might be able to deliver. In part, political prohibitions against research about direct measures of firearm control and the absence of valid public health surveillance are responsible. More refined epidemiologic theories as well as traditional public health methods are needed if the U.S. aims to reduce disparate Black-White youth homicide rates.

Indexed as

FirearmsPublic HealthAdolescentBlack or African AmericanHomicideHumansMaleUnited StatesWhite PeopleYoung Adult

Identifiers

PMID22643459
PMCPMC3457653

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