@article{ref1,
title="US surgeon general declares gun violence a public health crisis",
journal="BMJ",
year="2024",
author="Dyer, Owen",
volume="386",
number="",
pages="q1468-q1468",
abstract="The US surgeon general, Vivek Murthy, has declared gun violence a public health crisis, calling on Americans to confront it with the same urgency that cut deaths from tobacco use and road traffic crashes.1  &quot;Firearm violence is a public health crisis. Our failure to address it is a moral crisis,&quot; said Murthy in a video speech. It is the first time that a US surgeon general has declared gun violence a public health crisis, he noted, saying that he had been driven to act by a steady increase in gun deaths, which reached a three decade high in 2021.   In 2020 gunshot wounds became the leading cause of death among children and adolescents in the US, surpassing road deaths. In 2022 a total of 4603 Americans aged 1 to 19 died by gunshot, more than …<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0959-535X",
doi="10.1136/bmj.q1468",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q1468"
}