A5053687583- Gun Ownership and Violence Research
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Disaster Response and Management
- Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries
- Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Traffic and Road Safety
- Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues
- Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes
- Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
- Torture, Ethics, and Law
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
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Johns Hopkins University
2014-2024
Bloomberg (United States)
2022
National Association of County and City Health Officials
2019
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
2019
Maryland Department of Health
2019
Washington College
2019
Trinity College
2019
Johns Hopkins Medicine
2017
Colorado School of Public Health
2014
George Washington University
2011
The Center for Law and the Public's Health at Georgetown Johns Hopkins Universities drafted Model State Emergency Powers Act (MSEHPA or Act) request of Centers Disease Control Prevention. provides state actors with powers they need to detect contain bioterrorism a naturally occurring disease outbreak. Legislative bills based on MSEHPA have been introduced in 34 states. Problems obsolescence, inconsistency, inadequacy may render current laws ineffective even counterproductive. often date back...
Context Firearms are used in approximately half of all youth suicides.Many state and federal laws include age-specific restrictions on the purchase, possession, or storage firearms; however, association between these suicides among has not been carefully examined.Objective To evaluate youth-focused firearm youth.Design, Setting, Participants Quasi-experimental design with annual statelevel data suicide rates US aged 14 through 20 years, for period 1976-2001.Negative binomial regression...
The loss of life in Newtown, Connecticut, December 2012 has prompted a national conversation about guns and mental illness. Public opinion surveys can help policymakers understand Americans' attitudes toward both violence-prevention proposals
We sought to estimate the effect of Connecticut's implementation a handgun permit-to-purchase law in October 1995 on subsequent homicides.Using synthetic control method, we compared homicide rates after law's would have expected had not been implemented. To counterfactual, used longitudinal data from weighted combination comparison states identified based ability their prelaw trends and covariates predict Connecticut.We estimated that was associated with 40% reduction firearm during first 10...
suing those who sold guns to our straw purchasers.Straw purchasers are lie about is the actual purchaser of gun, standing in for somebody could not pass a background check.Twenty-four most problematic dealers settled or were put under court monitor.Dr. Webster found that New York City likelihood recovering gun at crime scene from one these dropped almost overnight by 84 percent.Ninety-nine percent country do obey law; not, and ones we have go after.And results dramatic instantaneous.Our...
The presence of firearms in the home increases risk suicide for residents. As a result, clinicians and professional organizations recommend counseling about temporary removal from potentially suicidal individuals. In some states, however, firearm laws may affect ability to easily transfer gun temporarily reduce risk. particular, universal background check (UBC) laws-which require whenever is transferred, even by non-gun dealers-may also apply transfers intended Clinicians have previously...
Objectives. To compare public support for 24 different gun policies between owners and non–gun in 2017. Methods. We fielded a national opinion survey January 2017 using an online panel to measure US adults’ policies. compared among owners. Results. For 23 of the examined, most respondents supported restricting or regulating ownership. Only 8 had greater than 10-point gap Conclusions. Policies with high minimal gaps by ownership status included universal background checks, accountability...
Gun policy is a prominent topic of debate in the 2020 US election cycle. Tracking evolving public attitudes about gun critical this context. Using data from National Survey Policy fielded 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2019 by Johns Hopkins Center for Research, we examined trends support more than two dozen policies over time ownership status political party affiliation, across states. Most that considered had majority study period. We identified increases licensing universal background checks...
To estimate and compare the effects of state background check policies on firearm-related mortality in 4 US states.
Six U.S. states have declared their opioid-overdose situation an emergency. Though the scope of these declarations has been limited, they could suggest additional responses to multiple facets crisis, especially if emergency powers are used in innovative ways.
Background Gun possession by high-risk individuals presents a serious threat to public safety. U.S. federal law establishes minimum criteria for legal purchase and of firearms; many states have laws disqualifying additional categories illegal possession. Methods We used data from national survey state prison inmates calculate: 1) the proportion offenders, incarcerated crimes committed with firearms in 13 least restrictive firearm laws, who would been prohibited if their had stricter gun...
Background: In 2016, firearms killed 38,658 people in the United States. Federal law requires licensed gun dealers, but not private parties, to conduct background checks on prospective firearm purchasers with goal of preventing prohibited persons from obtaining firearms. Our objective was estimate effect repeal comprehensive check laws—requiring a for all handgun sales, just sales by dealers—on homicide and suicide rates Indiana Tennessee. Methods: We compared age-adjusted rates, measured...
Ideas and Opinions3 July 2018Firearms Dementia: Clinical ConsiderationsFREEMarian E. Betz, MD, MPH, Alexander D. McCourt, JD, Jon S. Vernick, Megan L. Ranney, Donovan T. Maust, MS, Garen J. Wintemute, MPHMarian MPHUniversity of Colorado School Medicine, Denver, (M.E.B.), MPHJohns Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland (A.D.M., J.S.V.), MPHRhode Island Hospital/Alpert Medical Brown University, Providence, Rhode (M.L.R.), MSVA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Arbor, Michigan...
To determine the association between licensing and registration of firearm sales an indicator gun availability to criminals.Tracing data on all crime guns recovered in 25 cities United States were used estimate relationship state law categories proportion first sold by in-state dealers.In located states with both mandatory systems (five cities), a mean 33.7% dealers, compared 72.7% that had either or but not (seven 84.2% without (13 cites). Little difference neither nor was explained...