The Silent Epidemic Of Gun Injuries

Author : Melvin Delgado
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780197609774
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silent Epidemic of Gun Injuries written by Melvin Delgado and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Silent Epidemic of Gun Injuries explains the effects of injuries from gun violence in the United States. Through case studies and statistics, Melvin Delgado explores the physical and emotional effects of gun injuries as well as their social, cultural, and economic impact on communities. Further, he explains how communities and social work professionals can respond to the epidemic of gun injuries.

Author : Melvin Delgado
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197609767
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silent Epidemic of Gun Injuries written by Melvin Delgado and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There are numerous preconceived notions about this topic, as well as profound concerns on how gun violence is altering the life course of residents, family members, neighborhoods, and the nation as a whole. Some of these notions will be widely embraced while others may enjoy limited acceptance. Regardless of stance, we can acknowledge that gun violence undermines a quest for a healthy and productive life. Further, making this book urban focused, has race and socio-economic class assume prominence bringing a social justice and equity lens (Zakrison, Williams, & Crandall, 2021)"--

Author : Melvin Delgado
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 153816647X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Gun Violence written by Melvin Delgado and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enhancing existing green spaces, such as parks and gardens, or introducing them where they do not through conversion of lots, has taken center stage in urban communities of color as a means of addressing a range of social problems, including reducing various forms of violence. Written for urban-focused researchers, practitioners, and academics, Urban Gun Violence: Empty Lots, Green Spaces, and Other Ecologically Focused Interventions uses case studies and grounding research to inform gun violence reduction interventions.

Author : David Hemenway
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472023829
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Private Guns, Public Health written by David Hemenway and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this small book David Hemenway has produced a masterwork. He has dissected the various aspects of the gun violence epidemic in the United States into its component parts and considered them separately. He has produced a scientifically based analysis of the data and indeed the microdata of the over 30,000 deaths and 75,000 injuries which occur each year. Consideration and adoption of the policy lessons he recommends would strengthen the Constitutional protections that all of our citizens have to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." -Richard F. Corlin, Past President, American Medical Association "This lucid and penetrating study is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the tragedy of gun violence in America and-even more important-what we can do to stop it. David Hemenway cuts through the cant and rhetoric in a way that no fair-minded person can dismiss, and no sane society can afford to ignore." -Richard North Patterson, novelist "The rate of gun-related homicide, suicide, and accidental injury has reached epidemic proportions in American society. Diagnosing and treating the gun violence epidemic demands the development of public health solutions in conjunction with legislative and law enforcement strategies." -Kweisi Mfume, President and CEO of NAACP "In scholarly, sober analytic assessments, including rigorous critiques of NRA-popularized pseudoscience, David Hemenway constructs a convincing case that firearm availability is a critical and proximal cause of unparalleled carnage. By formulating such violence as a public health issue, he proposes workable policies analogous to ones that reduced injuries from tobacco, alcohol, and automobiles." -Jerome P. Kassirer, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, New England Journal of Medicine, and Distinguished Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine "As a former District Attorney and Attorney General, I know the urgency of providing safe homes, schools and neighborhoods for all. This remarkable tour-de-force is a powerful study of one promising solution: a data-rich, eminently readable demonstration of why we should treat gun violence as an American epidemic." -Scott Harshbarger, Former Attorney General of Massachusetts, President and CEO of Common Cause On an average day in the United States, guns are used to kill almost eighty people, and to wound nearly three hundred more. If any other consumer product had this sort of disastrous effect, the public outcry would be deafening; yet when it comes to guns such facts are accepted as a natural consequence of supposedly high American rates of violence. Private Guns, Public Health explodes that myth and many more, revealing the advantages of treating gun violence as a consumer safety and public health problem. David Hemenway fair-mindedly and authoritatively demonstrates how a public-health approach-which emphasizes prevention over punishment, and which has been so successful in reducing the rates of injury and death from infectious disease, car accidents, and tobacco consumption-can be applied to gun violence. Hemenway uncovers the complex connections between guns and self-defense, gun violence and schools, gun prevalence and homicide, and more. Finally, he outlines a policy course that would significantly reduce gun-related injury and death. With its bold new public-health approach to guns, Private Guns, Public Health marks a shift in our understanding of guns that will-finally-point us toward a solution.

Author : Trudy Ann Karlson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813524207
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reducing Firearm Injury and Death written by Trudy Ann Karlson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two experts in public health and injury control show readers how guns are products, designed to injure and kill, and how changes in the design, technology, and marketing of firearms can lead to reductions in the number of injuries and fatalities.

Author : P Reilly
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1444114425
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Head Injury 2Ed written by P Reilly and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-04-29 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traumatic brain injury is one of the most difficult and challenging management problems facing clinicians. Research is increasingly clarifying the underlying physiological mechanisms involved in neuronal damage, offering the chance of better methods of diagnosis and treatment.This second edition of Head Injury contains detailed coverage of basic me

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Health
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medicaid Home and Community Quality Services Act of 1987 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David J. Holcombe
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1546253165
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mendel’S Garden Revisited written by David J. Holcombe and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mendels Garden Revisited is a collection of medical essays spanning several years. Topics range from child abuse to prostate cancer, mosquito-borne diseases, and the tragedy of direct-to-consumer marketing. While most are straightforward descriptions of current medical conditions of interest, many explore the complex relationship of social determinants and health outcomes. Medical topics become outdated almost before they are printed. These articles are no exception. Although there has been a sincere attempt to report the most current data, that information changes almost daily. At best, this collection is a snapshot in time, perhaps more of interest to sociologists and historians than to doctors or medical students. Written for the lay public, it remains accessible to any reader.

Author : Ellen M. Chiocca
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN 13 : 0781791650
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advanced Pediatric Assessment written by Ellen M. Chiocca and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced Pediatric Assessment provides a detailed and comprehensive approach to obtaining the history and physical examination of children. It addresses the unique anatomic and physiologic differences between infants, children and adults so that PNPs, FNPs, and other practitioners can provide an accurate assessment during health and illness. Using a body system framework that highlights developmental and cultural considerations, the book emphasizes the physical and psychosocial principles of growth and development. Advanced Pediatric Assessment carries increased relevance today, with a focus on health promotion and wellness.

Author : Wendy Cukier
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Global Gun Epidemic written by Wendy Cukier and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2006 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cukier (justice studies and information technology management, Ryerson U., Toronto) and Sidel (social medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine) consider gun violence and control using a public health model, and compare statistics from the US with other countries. They analyze firearm ownership, why more guns correspond to an increase in deaths, the global trade, gun running and culture, regulation and various national approaches, and movements towards gun control internationally. Includes information on Africa, Asia, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Central America, China, Columbia, Columbine High School (Colorado) shootings, deaths from firearms, domestic violence, firearm marketing and promotion, Europe, France, Germany, Great Britain, gun industry and trade, Hungerford mass shooting (Great Britain), India, Japan, National Rifle Association (NRA), New Zealand, Port Arthur (Australia) massacre, Russian Federation, school shootings, South America, suicides, Switzerland, United States, women, etc.