Citation

Richardson MA. Health Soc. Work 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Oxford University Press)

DOI

10.1093/hsw/hlz026

PMID

31665285

Abstract

Social workers are uniquely situated to lead community-based efforts to reduce gun violence, which has been identified as a prevalent and pressing public health concern. The current literature, however, has not addressed the frameworks guiding community-based interventions for gun violence. In the present article, a systematic literature review examines frameworks used to support community-based interventions for gun violence and to evaluate their outcomes. The search found 13 articles-unique to gun violence interventions-organized by the frameworks shaping perceptions of gun violence and community-based research. The review assessed frameworks based on their relationship to intervention stage and study outcomes.

FINDINGS suggest that these community-based gun violence interventions are shaped by systems, public health, and community mobilization frameworks. The article discusses frameworks found to be associated with successful community-based interventions and explains how the findings are relevant to future social work practice and research.

© 2019 National Association of Social Workers.

Language: en

Keywords

community-based research; gun violence; literature review; public health