Citation

Kaplan MS, Mueller-Williams AC. Health Soc. Work 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Oxford University Press)

DOI

10.1093/hsw/hlz029

PMID

31651029

Abstract

According to the Institute of Medicine (2013) (National Academy of Medicine, as of 2015), firearm suicides significantly outnumber firearm homicides for most age groups, accounting for approximately two-thirds of all firearm injury fatalities in the United States. Research indicates that the suicide method that is most available and socially acceptable will be used most often (Barber & Miller, 2014; Houtsma, Butterworth, & Anestis, 2018). Firearms were involved in fewer than half of the suicides reported by high- and upper-middle-income countries, except for the United States (Grinshteyn & Hemenway, 2016). In 2017, of the 47,214 suicides in the United States, 51 percent involved the use of a firearm (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for...

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