@article{ref1,
title="The relationship between firearms and suicide: A review of the literature",
journal="Aggression and violent behavior",
year="1999",
author="Miller, Margaret and Hemenway, David A.",
volume="4",
number="1",
pages="59-75",
abstract="Suicide rates are affected by many factors-psychiatric, biological, familial and situational. This paper focuses on one potential risk factor for completed suicide in the United States-the availability of firearms. Whether the availability of firearms might increase the rate of attempted suicide is not examined. This article is not an exhaustive review of every existing firearm-related suicide study. Rather, it provides a detailed review of the most commonly cited, representative, and thorough empirical studies in the published peer-reviewed literature relating firearms and suicide, focusing largely on the United States. The empirical studies reviewed are grouped according to whether the unit of analysis is the individual (e.g, case-control studies) or a population (e.g, ecological studies) and further divided depending on whether the analysis uses cross-sectional or time-series (longitudinal) data. We begin with a very brief overview of the suicide problem in the United States.</p>",
language="en",
issn="1359-1789",
doi="10.1016/S1359-1789(97)00057-8",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1359-1789(97)00057-8"
}