Engaging stakeholders to develop a suicide prevention learning module for Louisiana firearm training courses.
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Inj Epidemiol. 2023 Jan 11. 10(1):3. PMID: 36631823
Houtsma C, Powers J, Raines AM, Bailey M, Barber C, True G.
Inj Epidemiol. 2023 Jan 11. 10(1):3. PMID: 36631823
Miller M, Azrael D, Yenduri R, Barber C, Bowen A, MacPhaul E, Mooney SJ, Zhou L, Goralnick E, Rowhani-Rahbar A.
JAMA Netw Open. 2022 12 01. 5(12):e2246429. PMID: 36512356
Barber C, Cook PJ, Parker ST.
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Conner A, Miller M, Barber C, Azrael D.
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Berrigan J, Miller M, Zhang W, Azrael D, Barber C.
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The relationship between firearms and suicide, as well as firearms injury data, were among the topics of studies from experts at Harvard Chan School that appeared in the December 2022 issue of the journal Preventive Medicine.
Around the U.S., public health practitioners are partnering with gun owners to prevent firearm suicides by encouraging voluntary storage—removal of guns from the home—during times of crisis.
Roughly half of those who die by suicide in the U.S. use a firearm. That’s why reducing access to lethal means is key to reducing suicides, according to Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Catherine Barber.
Reducing a suicidal person’s access to the most lethal methods, particularly firearms, can play an important role in preventing deaths.
A 50% increase in youth suicides in Florida over the past decade has been fueled, in part, by young people’s access to guns, according to a December 30, 2019 article in the South Florida Sun Sentinel. The article…