Dr. Garen J. Wintemute's slides from the Center for Health Journalism webinar, "Outgunned: America’s Public Health Crisis," 3.13.18
More info: https://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/content/outgunned-americas-public-health-crisis
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Dr. Garen J. Wintemute: "Outgunned: America’s Public Health Crisis"
1. Firearm Violence in the United States
Garen Wintemute, MD, MPH
Violence Prevention Research Program
University of California, Davis
March 13, 2018
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2. “If it’s not a health problem,
then why are all those people
dying from it?”
- David Satcher, MD
On violence:
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Applebome. NYT, Sep 26, 1993
, 1993
3. All Those People
• 321,557 deaths from firearm violence (suicide or homicide) in the
US from 2007-2016
• 333,890 firearm deaths altogether
• In 2016:
• 37,353 deaths from firearm violence
• 74.4% of homicides & 51.0% of suicides involved firearms
• $229 B in aggregate costs for firearm death and injury in 2012,
approximately 1.4% of GDP
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CDC WISQARS; Follman et al.
2015