TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - The epidemiology of firearm violence in the twenty-first century United States
JO  - Annual review of public health
A1  - Wintemute, Garen J.
SP  - 5
EP  - 19
VL  - 36
IS  - 
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0163-7525
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031914-122535
ID  - ref1
ER  -