Characteristics of Fatal Gunshot Wounds in the Home in Oklahoma: 1982-1983

Firearm Availability and Suicide, Homicide, and Unintentional Firearm Deaths Among Women

“…Consistent with others, we found that overall unintentional firearm death rates were positively associated with poverty 23 and inversely related to urbanization. 23,24 In addition, we found that higher homicide rates were associated with higher rates of poverty 27 and urbanization 25,26 (not shown).…”

“…State-based analyses adjust for the percentage of the population living in poverty and the percentage of the population living in urban areas, factors that have been linked to homicide and suicide rates. [22][23][24][25][26][27] When data for these control variables were not available for all years, values for missing observations were interpolated from surrounding years. Whether interpolations were linear interpolations from the surrounding years or averages of the 4 years closest to the missing year did not materially affect results.…”

Differences in incidence of injury between rural and urban children in Canada and the USA: a systematic review

“…Homicides using firearms were examined in five studies37 42 45 56 57 showing consistently lower rates for rural children with RR ranging from 0.02 to 0.42. As for unintentional firearm-related injuries, despite inconsistency in results among six studies, four37 45 55 57 out of six studies37 42 45 54 55 57 presented higher risk for rural children. For suicides, there were conflicting results from four studies 37 42 45 50…”

“…Eight studies4 17 27 28 32 41 55 57 presented age-specific injury rates. Effect of age subgroups on RRs between urban and rural children were not consistent across other variables within a study or across studies for overall injury and MVC injury, but one study57 presented a positive linear relationship between age and RR (rural to urban) of firearm-related deaths (Web Only file #2).…”

Injuries Due to Firearms in Three Cities

“…[1][2][3][4] Although several studies have documented the impact of firearm-related deaths, [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] little is known about the epidemiologic characteristics of nonfatal gunshot wounds. [16][17][18] Hospital records have been used to study patients who have been admitted, [19][20][21][22][23] but they do not contain information about patients who do I not survive to admission or who are treated and released.…”