Gun Violence Prevention: A Public Health Approach

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Violence Prevention ◽  
Gun Violence ◽  
Public Health Approach

scholarly journals Healthy People 2020 Objectives for Violence Prevention and the Role of Nursing

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Simon ◽  
Kimberly Hurvitz
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Violence Prevention ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Youth Violence ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
The United States ◽  
Healthy People ◽  
Public Health Approach ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
Healthy People 2020

Violence, including child maltreatment, youth violence, intimate partner violence, and sexual violence, is a significant public health problem in the United States. A public health approach can help providers understand the health burden from violence, evaluate evidence for prevention strategies, and learn where to turn for information about planning and implementing prevention strategies for this preventable problem. For the past three decades, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has published “Healthy People” objectives for the next decade. The Healthy People 2020 initiative includes 13 measurable objectives related to violence prevention, one of which was selected as a Healthy People 2020 Leading Health Indicator. Progress to achieve these objectives can save thousands of lives, reduce the suffering of victims and their families, and decrease financial cost to the law enforcement and healthcare systems. The role that nurses can and do play in violence prevention is critical and extends beyond just caring for victims to also include preventing violence before it happens. This article summarizes the violence prevention objectives in Healthy People 2020 and the resources for prevention available to support nurses and others as they move prevention efforts forward in communities to stop violence before it starts.

A New Narrative on Gun Violence

2021 ◽  
pp. 30-45
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Gun Violence ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Public Health Approach ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Gun Policy ◽  
Violence Reduction ◽  
Road Map ◽  
Community Environments

Chapter 3 offers narratives about gun violence; these narratives draw from public health tenets and practice. Contributors sketch a road map to how people with differing philosophies can act together to prevent gun deaths: Michael B. Siegel describes public health principles that can shape thinking about gun policy. Drawing from his experiences in Baltimore, Daniel W. Webster illustrates how gun violence has influenced urban life, examining the implications of aggressive law enforcement. His work with police and community members and his involvement with a gun violence reduction consortium yield strategies for reducing harm. Zeroing in on the community environments in which gun violence occurs, Bernadette Callahan Hohl illustrates how a public health approach can improve safety. Using examples from community-driven projects, she offers evidence that strengthening neighborhoods pays off. The chapter concludes an action agenda.

States Take a Public Health Approach to Curb Gun Violence

JAMA ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 310 (5) ◽  
pp. 468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bridget M. Kuehn
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Gun Violence ◽  
Public Health Approach

scholarly journals A Public Health Approach to Gun Violence, Legally Speaking

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (S2) ◽  
pp. 112-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael R. Ulrich
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Gun Violence ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Health Approach ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Public Health Law ◽  
Second Amendment

The call for a public health approach to gun violence has largely ignored what role the nascent Second Amendment jurisprudence will play in hindering change. Given the state interest for infringing on Second Amendment rights is nearly always public safety, public health law doctrine provides an apt framework for analysis.

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