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Child Health, Injury Prevention, Law

Gun Deaths Drive Historic Spike in Child Mortality Rates

April 18, 2023

After decades of steady improvement, the death rate of America’s children and teens shot up between 2019 and 2021 — and COVID-19 wasn’t the reason.

Injury Prevention, Politics, Prevention, Public Health

New Washington laws on guns, shooter drills, abortion take effect Thursday

June 8, 2022

Dovetailing with the hot-button issues of gun violence and abortion in the news recently, several bills passed by the Washington State Legislature this year will go into effect on Thursday.

Child Health, Injury Prevention, Public Health, Trauma

1 in 7 child deaths in US due to guns

December 20, 2018

America lost 20,360 children and teens in 2016, 60 % of them to preventable injuries: 4,000 died in car crashes; firearms claimed the lives of more than 3,140.

Brain and Nervous System, Dementia, Injury Prevention, Seniors, Trauma

Unlocked And Loaded: Families Confront Dementia And Guns

June 27, 2018

There has been debate about how to prevent people with mental illness from acquiring guns. But what seniors with declining mental faculties who have guns?

Injury Prevention, Public Health, Trauma

Public Health and medical community pledge to decrease gun violence

June 21, 2018

Public Health – Seattle & King County is joining with leading medical associations to form a new collaboration with a renewed commitment to decrease firearm-related injury and deaths.

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