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July 2006, Vol 96, No. 7 | American Journal of Public Health 1149-1150
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.088641

LETTER

KNOX AND CAINE RESPOND

Kerry L. Knox, PhD and Eric D. Caine, MD

Kerry L. Knox is with the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine and Eric D. Caine is with the Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Kerry L. Knox, PhD, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester, 601 Elmwood Ave, Box 644, Rochester, NY 14642 (e-mail: kerry_knox@urmc.rochester.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

We agree with Sorenson and Miller that firearms control in the United States has significant potential public health implications—for self-inflicted injury and suicide, homicide, and accidental injury. We also recognize the substantial social, cultural, and political implications of any public health–oriented discussion about firearms, a discussion that is likely to continue for many years into the future.1

While there is some indication that restriction of firearms in the homes of adolescents with previous histories of self-harm may be effective in reducing the risk of suicide,2 the focus of our article was to move priority-setting discussions beyond consideration of death rates . . . [Full Text]






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