作者
Matthew Miller, Deborah Azrael, David Hemenway
发表日期
2002/9/1
期刊
Epidemiology
卷号
13
期号
5
页码范围
517-524
出版商
LWW
简介
Background.
In the United States, more people kill themselves with firearms than with all other methods combined. A central question regarding the relation between firearms and suicide is whether the ready availability of firearms increases the suicide rate, rather than merely increasing the proportion of suicides from guns.
Methods.
We used publicly available data for the nine regions and 50 states in the United States over a 10-year period (1988–1997) to examine the association between levels of household firearm ownership and rates of suicide, firearm suicide, and non-firearm suicide by age groups and gender.
Results.
In both regional and state-level analyses, for the US population as a whole, for both males and females, and for virtually every age group, a robust association exists between levels of household firearm ownership and suicide rates.
Conclusions.
Where firearm ownership levels are higher, a …
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