Citation

Ajdacic-Gross V, Killias M, Hepp U, Gadola E, Bopp M, Lauber C, Schnyder U, Gutzwiller F, Rossler W. Public Health 2006; 96(10): 1752-1755.

Affiliation

University of Zurich.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.2105/AJPH.2005.075812

PMID

16946021

PMCID

PMC1586136

Abstract

We investigated changes in the proportion of firearm suicides in Western countries since the 1980s and the relation of these changes to the change in the proportion of households owning firearms. Several countries had an obvious decline in firearm suicides: Norway, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Multilevel modeling of longitudinal data confirmed the effect of the proportion of households owning firearms. Legislation and regulatory measures reducing the availability of firearms in private households can distinctly strengthen the prevention of firearm suicides.

Language: en