Comparison of US Firearm-Related Deaths Among Children and Adolescents by Race and Ethnicity, 1999-2020

Leonardo Mariño-Ramírez; I King Jordan; Anna María Nápoles; Eliseo J Pérez-Stable

doi:10.1001/jama.2022.19508

Comparison of US Firearm-Related Deaths Among Children and Adolescents by Race and Ethnicity, 1999-2020

JAMA. 2022 Dec 20;328(23):2359-2360. doi: 10.1001/jama.2022.19508.

Authors

Leonardo Mariño-Ramírez¹, I King Jordan², Anna María Nápoles¹, Eliseo J Pérez-Stable³

Affiliations

¹ Division of Intramural Research, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Bethesda, Maryland.
² School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.
³ Office of the Director, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Bethesda, Maryland.

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This study assesses racial and ethnic differences in overall burden of firearm-related mortality and in change in firearm-related mortality among youths from 1999 to 2020.

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Child
Ethnicity / statistics & numerical data
Firearms* / statistics & numerical data
Homicide / ethnology
Homicide / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Racial Groups / statistics & numerical data
Suicide / ethnology
Suicide / statistics & numerical data
United States / epidemiology
Wounds, Gunshot* / epidemiology
Wounds, Gunshot* / ethnology
Wounds, Gunshot* / mortality

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