The epidemiology of firearm violence in the twenty-first century United States

GJ Wintemute - Annual review of public health, 2015 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Biomedical explanations of psychopathology and their implications for attitudes and beliefs about mental disorders

MS Lebowitz, PS Appelbaum - Annual Review of Clinical …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Mental disorders are increasingly conceptualized as biomedical diseases, explained as
manifestations of genetic and neurobiological abnormalities. Here, we discuss changes in …

[图书][B] Ending discrimination against people with mental and substance use disorders: The evidence for stigma change

National Academies of Sciences… - 2016 - books.google.com
Estimates indicate that as many as 1 in 4 Americans will experience a mental health
problem or will misuse alcohol or drugs in their lifetimes. These disorders are among the …

Evolving public views on the likelihood of violence from people with mental illness: Stigma and its consequences

BA Pescosolido, B Manago, J Monahan - Health Affairs, 2019 - healthaffairs.org
Highly publicized acts of violence routinely spark reactions that place blame on the
perpetrator's presumed mental illness. Despite solid evidence that people with mental …

World survey of mental illness stigma

N Seeman, S Tang, AD Brown, A Ing - Journal of affective disorders, 2016 - Elsevier
Objective To obtain rapid and reproducible opinions that address mental illness stigma
around the world. Method Random global Web users were exposed to brief questions …

Prevention of firearm suicide in the United States: what works and what is possible

JJ Mann, CA Michel - American journal of psychiatry, 2016 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: About 21,000 suicides in the United States in 2014 involved a firearm. The
authors reviewed evidence from around the world regarding the relationship between …

Trends in news media coverage of mental illness in the United States: 1995–2014

EE McGinty, A Kennedy-Hendricks, S Choksy… - Health …, 2016 - healthaffairs.org
The United States is engaged in ongoing dialogue around mental illness. To assess trends
in this national discourse, we studied the volume and content of a random sample of 400 …

[HTML][HTML] Rescuers at risk: Posttraumatic stress symptoms among police officers, fire fighters, ambulance personnel, and emergency and psychiatric nurses

LM Soravia, S Schwab, S Walther, T Müller - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Emergency personnel and rescue workers may be at a risk of posttraumatic stress symptoms
(PTSS) due to exposure to trauma and work-related stressors. Though rescuers of different …

Yes, you can: physicians, patients, and firearms

GJ Wintemute, ME Betz, ML Ranney - Annals of Internal Medicine, 2016 - acpjournals.org
Physicians have unique opportunities to help prevent firearm violence. Concern has
developed that federal and state laws or regulations prohibit physicians from asking or …

[图书][B] Criminology: A sociological understanding

SE Barkan - 2001 - digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu
This book provides a sociological perspective on crime and criminal justice by treating social
structure and social inequality as central themes in the study of crime—and major factors in …