@article{ref1,
title="The epidemiology of firearm violence in the twenty-first century United States",
journal="Annual review of public health",
year="2017",
author="Wintemute, Garen J.",
volume="36",
number="",
pages="5-19",
abstract="This brief review summarizes the basic epidemiology of firearm violence, a large and costly public health problem in the United States for which the mortality rate has remained unchanged for more than a decade. It presents findings for the present in light of recent trends. Risk for firearm violence varies substantially across demographic subsets of the population and be- tween states in patterns that are quite different for suicide and homicide. Suicide is far more common than homicide and its rate is increasing; the homicide rate is decreasing. As with other important health problems, most cases of fatal firearm violence arise from large but low-risk subsets of the population; risk and burden of illness are not distributed symmetrically. Compared with other industrialized nations, the United States has uniquely high mortality rates from firearm violence.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0163-7525",
doi="10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031914-122535",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031914-122535"
}