BC Injury Research and Prevention Unit, BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Public Safety and Police Services Unit, Policing and Security Branch, Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General, Victoria, BC, Canada.
Front Public Health. 2023 Jan 13;10:938091. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.938091. eCollection 2022.
This study aimed to quantify the total cost of violent firearm-related offenses in British Columbia in 2016 Canadian dollars over a five-year period, 2012 to 2016. The purposes of this study were to estimate the direct costs to the health care system and indirect costs to society for violent firearm injuries and deaths; and to estimate criminal justice system costs pertaining to firearm incidents.
Human and economic costs to the health care system and productivity losses were calculated using health administrative datasets such as B.C. Vital Statistics and Discharge Abstract Database. Criminal justice system costs pertaining to firearm incidents were estimated by applying weighted average costs to aggregate expenditures using methodology consistent with that used by Statistics Canada.
There was a total of 108 deaths and 245 hospitalizations resulting from violent firearm injuries. The total estimated cost of all violent firearm crime averaged $294,378,985 per year; human costs averaged $188,416,841 per year, where health care costs averaged $3,910,317 per year, productivity losses from workforce and household averaged $17,299,054 and $4,559,470 per year, respectively, and loss of life averaged $162,648,000; and $105,021,145 in criminal justice system costs, and $941,000 in programming costs.
This study clearly demonstrates the significant cost of violent firearm injury in British Columbia and the impacts on the health care system, criminal justice system, and to society at large, particularly within the criminal justice system where the costs were significantly higher than health care.
本研究旨在量化不列颠哥伦比亚省 2016 年加元在五年内（2012 年至 2016 年）与暴力枪支相关犯罪的总费用。本研究的目的是估算暴力枪支伤害和死亡给医疗保健系统带来的直接成本以及给社会造成的间接成本；并估算与枪支事件相关的刑事司法系统成本。
使用不列颠哥伦比亚省生命统计和出院摘要数据库等健康管理数据集，计算医疗保健系统的人力和经济成本以及生产力损失。通过应用加权平均成本，根据与加拿大统计局使用的方法一致的方法，估算与枪支事件相关的刑事司法系统成本。
共有 108 人死亡，245 人因暴力枪支伤害住院。所有暴力枪支犯罪的总成本平均每年为 294,378,985 加元；人力成本平均每年为 188,416,841 加元，其中医疗保健成本平均每年为 3,910,317 加元，劳动力和家庭的生产力损失分别为每年 17,299,054 加元和 4,559,470 加元，以及每年 162,648,000 加元的生命损失；刑事司法系统成本为 105,021,145 加元，方案成本为 941,000 加元。
本研究清楚地表明，不列颠哥伦比亚省暴力枪支伤害的成本很高，对医疗保健系统、刑事司法系统以及整个社会都有影响，特别是在刑事司法系统中，其成本明显高于医疗保健系统。
