Frattaroli Shannon, Webster Daniel W, Teret Stephen P
Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research of the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore 21205, USA.
J Urban Health. 2002 Mar;79(1):49-59. doi: 10.1093/jurban/79.1.49.
The public health community has long recognized unintentional gun injuries as a public health issue. In 1998 in the United States, 866 people died from unintentional gunshot wounds, resulting in a crude death rate of 0.32 per 100,000. Unintentional gun deaths have been declining since at least 1920, yet the reasons for this downward trend are not understood. Possible explanations, such as changes in gun ownership and demography, changes in access to guns among population subgroups, safety practices, and artifactual influences are discussed. Intervention strategies for reducing the risk of unintentional gun injury are also discussed.
长期以来,公共卫生界一直将意外枪支伤害视为一个公共卫生问题。1998年在美国,有866人死于意外枪伤,粗死亡率为每10万人0.32人。至少自1920年以来,意外枪支死亡人数一直在下降,但这种下降趋势的原因尚不清楚。文中讨论了一些可能的解释,如枪支拥有情况和人口结构的变化、不同人群亚组获取枪支的变化、安全措施以及人为影响等。还讨论了降低意外枪支伤害风险的干预策略。