In a recent issue of the Journal, Kalesan et al. (1) made the case for a hidden epidemic of firearm injury in the United States during the period from 2001 to 2013. They concluded that “[t]he epidemic of firearm violence, driven largely by nonfatal injuries, is an important public health problem” and referred to the increase in nonfatal injuries as a “public health emergency” (1, p. 552). Over the course of their 12-year study period, there was a 2.5% increase in the crude rate of deaths from firearms (the net result of a large reduction in the firearm homicide rate coupled with an increase in the firearm suicide rate) and a supposed 20.4% increase in the nonfatal... © The Author(s) 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.
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